Thoughts for a New Year — Gary Barlow lyrics

Excerpting, editing by Carolyn Bennett

…Never forget where you’re coming from
Never pretend that it’s all real

Someday soon, this will all be someone else’s dream…

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… We’ve come so far and … reached so high

We’ve looked each day and night in the eye…

… Been on this path of life for so long

Feel I’ve walked a thousand miles

Sometimes strolled hand in hand with love

… With danger on my mind I would stand on the line of hope

And I knew I could make it

Once I knew the boundaries, I looked into the clouds and saw

My face in the moonlight

… I realized what a fool I could be

Just ‘cause I look so high you don’t have to see me

Finding paradise wasn’t easy but still

There’s a road going down the other side of this hill

Never forget where you’re coming from

Never pretend that it’s all real

Someday soon, this will all be someone else’s dream

This will be someone else’s dream…

Sources and notes

Take That: Never Forget Lyrics by songwriter Gary Barlow [excerpt, editing], http://www.metrolyrics.com/never-forget-lyrics-take-that.html

Gary Barlow of Take That received BBC’s Broadcasting House Cultural Figure of the Year award. See BBC Radio 4 Broadcasting House feature: interview with arts correspondent Rebecca Jones, January 2, 2011, http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qnj3

One of Britain’s most successful artists, Gary Barlow is singer-songwriter, pianist and producer, member and lead of the pop-rock group Take That. Barlow has had two Number 1 singles and a Number 1 album as solo singer, and has had sixteen top-5 hits, eleven Number 1 singles and seven Number 1 albums with Take That. He is a five-time recipient of the Ivor Novello Award and has been voted the greatest British songwriter of all time.

Gary Barlow (b. Frodsham, Cheshire, England, January 20, 1971): active years:1988–present; genre, Pop; labels Sony Music, Polydor, San Remo, Future Records Associated acts Take That; website garybarlow.com; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Barlow


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