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The theme for Song Lyric Sunday this week is “Songs from movies.”

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Singer/songwriter Siedah Garrett has written songs and performed background vocals for some of the biggest names in music. She scored hits duets with Dennis Edwards in 1984, Don’t Look Any Further, and Michael Jackson, I Just Can’t Stop Loving You in 1987.

But it was as a solo artist Siedah sang Everchanging Times, the theme song from 1987’s Baby Boom, starring Diane Keaton. The song peaked at #30 on the Adult Contemporary chart in 1987.

Everchanging Times is a great song about a woman trying to deal with the fast-paced changes of life, determined to not sacrifice love. Though it’s from an 80s movie, the song is timeless and its theme still quite relevant today.

FUN FACTS:

Garrett has been nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Original Song, and won the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media at the 50th Grammy Awards for co-writing Love You I Do (performed by Jennifer Hudson) for the 2006 musical film, Dreamgirls.
Thinking she was simply answering a call to only appear as a background vocalist on I Just Can’t Stop Loving You, Siedah initially felt intimidated with excitement when she entered the recording booth and noticed two music stands with sheet music that had lyric parts labeled “Michael” and “Siedah”.
Siedah co-wrote Michael Jackson’s #1 hit, Man in Mirror. In a 2013 interview she said, “I needed to send it through Quincy {Jones} because if Quincy didn’t like it there was no way that Michael would ever hear it. It was a huge privilege for me when Quincy decided that the song was good enough to play for Michael.”

Enjoy!

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Everchanging Times

by Siedah Garrett

Songwriters: Burt Bacharach/Bill Conti/Carole Bayer Sager

These, are ever changing times
Everything is going so much faster
It seems like I’m
Watching my life, and everything I do
Wondering if the dreams that I believed in
Still come true
Caught in between, it comes back to
You and me running out of time, I gotta find me a better understanding
Every day keeps forgetting whats mine, I gotta find me a way, less-demanding
And we’re holding on so tight, together, all of our lives

And I, I had some big idea
So much of my life, still not completed
Hopes and Fears
Watching it change, into something new
Wondering it I’m gonna find the answer, loving you
All of my life, it comes back to
You and me running out of time, I gotta find me a better understanding
Every day keeps forgetting whats mine, I gotta find me a way, less-demanding
And we’re holding on so tight
Together, all of our lives

But, it don’t bother me at all
Cuz of everchanging time
I see, that clock upon the wall, it don’t bother me at all
It’s a ever changing time

All of my life, it comes back to
You and me running out of time, I gotta find me a better understanding
Every day keeps forgetting whats mine, I gotta find me a way, less-demanding
And we’re holding on so tight, together
[/i]And we’re gonna be alright[i], together, all of our lives
I see, that clock upon the wall, it don’t bother me at all
It’s a ever changing time
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Compiled from Google, Genius Lyrics, Wikipedia, and Songfacts.com