I have my favourites, as you all know by now … Elton, Stevie, Lionel, The Four Tops, Stevie, Marvin Gaye, Whitney Houston, Stevie, etc.  Oh, and did I mention Stevie, as in Stevie Wonder?  But I love many other artists from the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s … I just forget about them sometimes.  One such is Billy Ocean … I have played 2 or 3 of his before, but I find I have never played this one …

Y’know, it’s funny … if I am feeling down, I look to happy, cheery tunes to try to turn my mood around.  But, I have a couple of friends of the male persuasion who turn to dark or sad songs when they are feeling low.  Is this, I wonder, a ‘guy thing’, or am I the anomaly?

This song was written and produced by Wayne Brathwaite and Barry Eastmond; Ocean was also credited as a co-writer for the song. It appears on Ocean’s 1986 album Love Zone, which was released on Jive Records.

According to Barry Eastmond, the song was inspired by an incident involving Ocean’s hit song of the previous year, Suddenly.  Eastmond told Fred Bronson in The Billboard Book of Number One Hits about a friend of his wife’s who had recently broken up with a long-term boyfriend. While at a party given by her new boyfriend, the song Suddenly, which reminded her of her previous boyfriend, was played, and she broke down in tears. Eastmond and his co-writers used this scenario as the basis for writing There’ll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry).

This hit #1 in the U.S. and Canada, #12 in the UK.

There’ll Be Sad Songs
Billy Ocean

Sometimes I wonder by the look in your eyes
When I’m standing beside you
There’s a fever burning deep inside.

Is there another in your memory
Do you think of that someone
When you hear that special melody?

I always stop and think of you especially
When the words of a love song touch the very heart of me.

[Chorus:]
There’ll be sad songs to make you cry –
Love songs often do.
They can touch the heart of someone new –
Saying I love you.
(I Love you)

I often wonder how it could be – you loving me –
Two hearts in perfect harmony.
I’ll count the hours until that day
A rhapsody plays a melody for you and me.

Until the moment that you give your love to me
You’re the one I care for
The one that I would wait for.

[Chorus x2]

You’re my desire
You take me higher
My love is like a river running so deep.

I always stop and think of you especially
When the words of a love song touch the very heart of me.

[Chorus x2]

Sayin’ I love you…
I love you

Songwriters: Charles Leslie Sebestian, Eastmond Barry James, Brathwaite Wayne Anton
AZ Lyrics