Friday, March 23, 2018

"Come Back (I Don't Want to Go on without You)"

The first two lines of the bridge in "Come Back (I Don't Want to Go on without You)" are "Here in the gloom / Of my lonely room."  These same lines also appear in the Ink Spots' "I'm Making Believe."  The two songs were written by different people ("I'm Making Believe" by Monaco and Gordon; "Come Back (I Don't Want to Go on without You)" by Berns and Wexler), but I think there might be a connection because these lines are so similar.  Apparently, "I'm Making Believe" is from 1944, and "Come Back (I Don't Want to Go on without You)" was originally released by the Drifters (as just "I Don't Want to Go on without You") in 1964.

The "every" in the second verse ("I keep seeing your face / Whoa, every place") is sung with three syllables rather than just two, which musically gives a sense of the variety of places in which the singer/speaker sees his girl.