LadyDpiano: Cyndi Lauper Time After Time

"Time After Time" was a single by singer Cyndi Lauper, the second from her album She's So Unusual. It reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart on June 9, 1984[1], and remained there for two weeks. Worldwide, the song is her most commercially successful single after "Girls Just Want to Have Fun," and reached number 3 on the UK Singles Chart and number 6 on the ARIA Singles Chart.

"Time After Time" was nominated for "Song of the Year" at the 1985 Grammy Awards. The ballad is considered a classic of the 1980s and is still played frequently on adult contemporary radio. The song is known for its numerous covers by a wide range of artists.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_After_Time_(Cyndi_Lauper_song)

* Time After Time by Cyndi Lauper Songfacts
"Cyndi came up with the title when she saw it in the magazine TV Guide. "Time After Time" was the name of a 1979 science fiction movie starring Malcolm McDowell as a man who invents a time machine. Says Rob:
"When she saw 'Time After Time,' something clicked - she said 'I think I have a title.' I was sitting at the piano and just started banging out what would eventually be the chorus, hook, and the way we sing it. It almost had like a Reggae feel, it was a little bouncier and a little more upbeat. We started getting off on that chorus, then the verse melodies started to appear. It's a deceptively simple song. The verses are just a little repeating 3 note motif - almost like a nursery rhyme, a very simple song. Then we started to realize we were on to something. The mood of the lyrics came from both of us. I think Cyndi came in and really started the lyric flow, then all of the sudden we realized it wasn't such a bouncy song, but it was a little more bittersweet and a little deeper in its feeling and a little more poignant, so the music started to change. We wrote a little bridge section and I think the last thing we really wrote was the chorus. We had 'Time After Time,' we just had to get the words that would surround it."

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=672

* This classic '80s ballad was one of the biggest hits for the unusual NYC pop princess. At least 97 different artists have covered Time After Time... including myself! My piano students love playing this very catchy tune and so do I!

Time After Time Chords by Cyndi Lauper

* Chord Chart:
Intro: F G Em Fmaj9 (repeat)
Verse:
F C F C F C F C
Ly - ing in bed I hear the clock tick and think of you.
F C F C F C F C
Caught up in cir - cles confu - sion is nothing new.
F G Em F G Em
Flashbacks, warm nights. Almost left behind
F G Em F F Fmaj9
Suitcase of memories, time after
F C F C F C F C
Some - times you picture me, I'm walk ing too far ahead.
F C F C F C F C
You're calling to me I can't hear what you've said.
F G Em F G Em
Then you say go slow, I fall behind.
F G Em F
The second hand undwinds.
( G Am7 F Fmaj9 C)
If you're lost you can look and you will find me. Time after time.
If you fall I will catch you I'll be waiting. Time after time.
If you're lost you can look and you will find me. Time after time.
If you fall I will catch you I'll be waiting. Time after time.
Verse:
F C F C F C F C
Af - ter my picture fades and dark-ness has turned to grey.
F C F C F C F C
Watching through win - dows, you're wondering if I'm o - k.
F G Em F G Em F G Em F
Secrets stolen from deep inside. The drum beats out of time.
(Refrão)
You said go slow, I fall behind. The second hand unwinds.
(Refrão)
F Fmaj9 C
Time after time.
Time after time.
Time after time.

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