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Help Me Make It Through the Night
Words & Music:
Kris KristoffersonTake the ribbon from your hair
Shake it loose, let it fall
Lay it soft against my skin
Like the shadow on the wall
Come and lay down by my side
Till the early morning light
All I’m taking is your time
Help me make it through the night
I don't care what's right or wrong
I won't try to understand
Let the devil take tomorrow
'Cause tonight I need a friend
Yesterday is dead and gone
And tomorrow's out of sight
And it's sad to be alone
Help me make it through the night
I don't care what's right or wrong
I won't try to understand
Let the devil take tomorrow
'Cause tonight I need a friend
Yesterday is dead and gone
And tomorrow's out of sight
And it's sad to be alone
Help me make it through the night
I don't want to be alone
Help me make it through the night Recorded:
1971/05/17, first released on
Elvis NowReactions
The song is great, the band just don't deliver. Right now I'm listening to take 3, which sounds quite awful. So they probably released the right take.
Not one of the best from our boy, and the whole performance seems a bit of a struggle from start to finish. I don't usually say this about him, but he does sound bored.- 3 stars tops.
Not a great track; but a decent one that led off the LP "Elvis Now"...What a shame RCA, Elvis and the Colonel picked the 10 songs they picked for this LP. This one would have fit in a little with the original concept of the LP (a folk album); but superior tracks such as "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", "I'm Leavin", "For Lovin' Me" and even a well edited version of "Don't Think Twice" would have been a much better representation of Elvis "now" than "Hey Jude", "Miracle Of The Rosary and "Sylvia" (which should have been on the "Love Letters" LP). HMMITTN gets 3 1/2 stars from me, the LP as it is, gets 2 1/2.
Ho-hum. Sort of boring to me. Sorry.
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