In an interview Richard Carpenter said he received physical threats for using such a “hard rock” guitar solo (paraphrasing a bit) in this song when it was originally released. That guitar is the hook in this song imho.
I find "Rainy Days & Mondays" is the same. When Paul Williams (the composer) sings it, it's a totally different song. Somehow Karen Carpenter could lighten tragic lyrics.
I was single when Karen was alive and felt the joy and sorrow in her songs, I was living it too. Later in life I found my first and only love; I know Karen sent her. The future is a mystery to us all...I love you Karen Carpenter.
Beautiful, sad, and hopeful song. Sung with karen's beautiful voice. Seems like the song described my situation when I first heard it and almost cried inside and out. But at least I found God's perfect Love and I hope his love will find the right one for me on Earth. 💜
There are no tomorrow's for this heart of mine. What lies in the future is a mystery to us all. Thinking about her makes me treasure being alive. I wish she could have lived.
I did too as a 70's child. Next month marks the 40th anniversary of her death! I was 15, and return when my grandma told me the sad news. Timeless music!
@@steffanhoffmann8937 My husband died. I still love him with all my heart and soul, but I had to say goodbye to love. There will never a love like we shared.
I love Carpenters but recently it's been a while since I listen to their songs but- this magically is recommended to me in my feed and when I listen, the lyrics is very accurate to my situation right now. I used to find my love, with every efforts I can... but I always fail in the end. They got another girls before we even tried... to the point that I feel like I give up for this, especially after the death of my father recently, before I get a chance to get marry... this makes me feel even hopeless, what Karen sang here is what I truly feel right now, but yeah even this song has a line when there is still hope in the future, and I will believe in that. Tomorrow we'll never know, perhaps in my hardest point of life right now I will find the bright future. I pray.
I remember many many moons ago listening to The Carpenters now when I look at her when I hear her sing I cry and they're not tears of joy tears of status of sorrow that the poor girl was so sad and lonely even though everybody around her loved her something was missing I think she just couldn't find true love I'm crying right now she sings like an Angel how could anybody not love her I'm so sad I can't find any Joy of her songs anymore she was truly in pain and agony such a sweet sorrow!
I am now turning 26 years old.. no boy friend since birth. I first heard this song when i watched minions. And i feel sad and feel empty at the same time. This song speaks to me. I know i've been single for such long period of time(since birth) im not forcing myself to have relationship. Im just typical person who doesnt eaily fall in love. And honestly i feel empty and lonely feel out of place most of the times with my friends who are now married. I don't know maybe there's really no one for me. My older sisters have their own family now. The only thing i mostly do is work and go home. Tried to socialize but still uh, when i start to like someone and i feel he doesnt like me or maybe im thinking too much so idealistic i guess dont know anymore
26 here too and I've tried for years but every time I liked someone I would get rejected. I'm thinking back at all my efforts to find love and it's been a waste of time. Especially since everyone else seems to pair up easily or they just find hookups and have fun, whereas I struggle to get a second date. So I might just give up dating for now
Life is too short, so enjoy every moment as well as you can!!! Fck the BF or GF, there are many other beautiful things in the world waiting for someone to embrace it!
😪 Timeless & so touching. I was born in '65 & remember hearing their songs all the time on the car radio. 🎶 📻 ☮️ 🕊🎶 I pray she knew her maker. 🙏☝️🕎 ✝️ 🕊 G-d bless! 🕊 🎶 🎧 🎶
I’ve only ever been truly in love three times in my life, a heady teenage love, then a marriage to a. Narcissist, and three decades later I fell in love again with another narcissist. I am old now, i am done . My life is good enough without love .Karen has an amazing voice .
This comment makes me feel terrible. I don’t like thinking about people having to accept loneliness for the rest of their life, the past of bad memories and experiences. But now they’re done, they can’t take their youth back. I’m glad that you’re happy though. Thanks for sharing.
@@cassidy-zh9ie there’s a difference between alone and loneliness. I never feel lonely, and I quite like being alone. Obviously I’ve got family, a couple of good friends and my dogs. I also online a lot, where I have a small circle of trusted friends to chat with so it’s all good. The worst thing about getting old is deteriorating health and adapting to not being able to do all the things one once did with ease, but that comes to most people eventually. So don’t be sad, it’s not all doom and gloom …but I am not coming back, if that option exists, , as some people claim…this time was quite enough. Lol
My all time favourite song from the Carpenters. It takes me back to when I was a teenager and the day Karen died. Still makes me feel sad when I hear the Song. Continue to Rest in peace. Your Legacy will live on❤😢🙏🏽
The genius of Richard and his sister Karen's fab voice. Production outstanding and harmony direction by Richard. The Carpenters were loved in Great Britain. 🇬🇧🇺🇸
In the Philippines too. A singer in the Philippines even imitated her singing style and became famous. But of course no one can beat the original Karen Carpenter. So sad… she longed to be loved since childhood and her dream of having a loving husband and to have children didn’t come true. Same thing that happened to me 😢 … that’s why recently I’m engrossed to singing this song 😢
The song lingers in my heart since yesterday that I saw the Minions movie...until I finally searched for it and the lyrics is so perfect for me. Yoooo MINI BOSS!!!
This is the song I used to sing when my first love broke my heart..Yeah, that was 25 years ago. Both of us got married..He became widowed and remarried..Some of my friends told me, maybe if we got married I was the one who died.Well, my relationship with him was fun and memorable ( as I was a teenager ) but that relationship was short. It wasn't even reached one year😂😂. I was immature and he wanted me to change to the things that I wasn't ready to adapt , so it didn't workout. Well anyway, it's really nice to reminisce the past.
I recalled hearing this song in Minions: The Rise of Gru; the Minions play it as they mourn for Gru's aggressive stormoff and grow glum. Kevin then fails to save Gru from one of the goons who kidnapped him and brought him to Wild Knuckles (Alan Arkin) in San Francisco, California.
I went to see the new minions film today and hadn’t heard this song before but I thought it sounded like a carpenters song , and low and behold I was right ❤️
That surprising and astounding fuzz guitar riff at the end is by Anthony F. "Tony" Peluso (March 28, 1950 - June 5, 2010). From Wikipedia: While the Carpenters were working on the song, Richard Carpenter decided that a fuzz guitar solo should be included. Karen Carpenter called guitarist Tony Peluso and asked him to play on the record. Tony remembers: "At first I didn't believe that it was actually Karen Carpenter on the phone but she repeated her name again. ... It was at this point that I realized it was really her and that I was speaking to one of my idols." She told him that she and Richard were working on a song called "Goodbye to Love", that they were familiar with Tony's work with a band called Instant Joy, and that he would be perfect for the sound they were looking for. Peluso first played something soft and sweet, but then Richard Carpenter said: "No, no, no! Play the melody for five bars and then burn it up! Soar off into the stratosphere! Go ahead! It'll be great!" John Bettis has said that Richard Carpenter kept calling him, raving about the guitar solo. He was wondering why Richard was going on about the solo until he heard it. The lyricist said he cried when he first heard the song because he had never heard an electric guitar sound like that. He said Tony Peluso "had a certain almost cello sounding guitar growl that worked against the wonderful melancholia of that song". He went on to say the "way it growls at you, especially at the end" was unbelievable. The Carpenters received hate mail (claiming that the Carpenters had sold out and gone hard rock)
Since I was a child, I have always wanted to find my one true love, my soulmate. But I think, maybe, it will never happen. It hurts so bad because I just wish I could feel loved for who I am, at least once in my life
There's a poem called "For Anne Gregory" by William Butler Yeats. The ending lines say Only God can love you for who you are and not for you carrot hair. Learn to love yourself, only then will you find true love...
I'll say goodbye to love No one ever cared if I should live or die Time and time again the chance for love has passed me by And all I know of love Is how to live without it I just can't seem to find it So I've made my mind up I must live my life alone And though it's not the easy way I guess I've always known I'd say goodbye to love There are no tomorrows for this heart of mine Surely time will lose these bitter memories And I'll find that there is someone to believe in And to live for something I could live for All the years of useless search Have finally reached an end Loneliness and empty days will be my only friend From this day love is forgotten I'll go on as best I can What lies in the future Is a mystery to us all No one can predict the wheel of fortune as it falls There may come a time when I will see that I've been wrong But for now this is my song And it's goodbye to love I'll say goodbye to love
This song could go for a random song album with Feel So Sad (instrumental tune), Jar of Hearts, the sullen hits for Donkey after Shrek dishonored his supremacy for teamwork and Verne after he let the pack and R.J. down after returning the food, R. J. finding the Moon looking full and him watching Gladys and the Verminator set up a laser trap set and Coldplay: Warning Sign.
No, actually these are not special or unique songs, think about it, this is something mostly all of us in many ways do possess - I don’t know if everyone can develop - but, it’s actually just kinda universal - everyman
