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(Youtube link) Everything I do I do it for you - Bryan Adams
Look into my eyes
You will see, what you mean to me
Search your heart, search your soul
When you find me there, you'll search no more
Don't tell me it's not worth trying for
You can't tell me it's not worth dying for
You know it's true (you know it's true)
Everything I do
I do it for you
Yeah, yeah
Look in to your heart, you will find
There is nothing there to hide
Take me as I am, take my life
I would give it all, I would sacrifice
Don't tell me it's not worth fighting for
I can't help it, there's nothing I want more
You know it's true
Everything I do
I do it for you
There's no love, like your love
And no other, could give me more love
There's nowhere, unless you're there
All the time, all the way
You can't tell me it's not worth trying for
Just can't help it, there's nothing I want more
Oh, I would fight for you, yeah, I'd lie for you
Walk the wire for you, yeah, I'd die for you
You know it's true
Everything I do
I do for you
Musixmatch - Everything I do I do it for you Bryan Adams
Everything I Do I Do It for You was written by Canadian singer-songwriter Bryan Adams in conjunction with Michael Kamen and Robert John "Mutt" Lange. The song was inspired by the love theme from Kamen's film, "Maid Marian".
The original recording of Everything I Do I Do It for You featured the singer, on lead vocals and guitar, and musicians Bill Payne on piano, Mickey Curry on drums, Larry Klein on bass, Keith Scott on lead guitar and backing vocals, Robbie King on organ and Mutt Lange on synthesizers.
This ballad became the first single from the soundtrack of the 1991 film "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" and also the first single from Adams' sixth studio album, "Waking Up the Neighbors", released on June 17, 1991 .
"Waking Up the Neighbours" in September 24, 1991
Formats: CD, LP, cassette
As with several songs by Bryan Adams, this one also achieved great success in different charts around the world: it was placed first in at least nineteen countries, with exceptions for Italy (third place) and Spain (fourth place).
In the United Kingdom, it spent sixteen consecutive weeks at number one on the UK Singles Cart chart in 2022 and across Europe, for eighteen weeks, it also reached number one on the sales chart.
But it didn't stop there: in the United States, it was at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, in terms of radio airplay and sales, for seven weeks and at number one, only on the sales chart, for seventeen consecutive weeks. In Canada, the birthplace of Bryan Adams, it stayed at the top of the singles chart for nine weeks and eleven weeks at the top of the Australian singles chart and twelve weeks at the top of the Swedish singles chart.
In most countries where it was at number one, it was the number one song of 1991, except in Germany (number two), Austria (number two) and Switzerland (number three).
Everything I Do I Do It for You won a Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture or Television.
By selling more than 15 million copies worldwide, it became Bryan Adams' most successful song and one of the best-selling singles. It should also be noted that this song has been covered by hundreds of singers and artists from around the world.
The performance music video was directed by Julien Temple. In it you can see Bryan Adams, with his band, playing the song in a forest with a silk mill in the background, and even, interspersed, the singer alone playing on a rocky beach and scenes from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.
The video was shot in woodland near Holford in the Quantock Hills and on a beach with geological cliff formations near Kilve, Somerset. The video was also commissioned for a live version of the song, which was directed by Andy Morahan.
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