Just My Imagination

Album: Sky's The Limit (1971)
Charted: 8 1
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  • Each day through my window
    I watch her as she passes by
    I say to myself
    You're such a lucky guy
    To have a girl like her
    Is truly a dream come true
    Out of all the fellas in the world
    She belongs to you

    But it was just my imagination
    Runnin' away with me-once again
    Seems it was just my imagination
    Runnin' away with me

    Soon we'll be married
    And raise a family, oh yeah
    Have a cozy little house in the country
    With two kids maybe three
    I tell you I can visualize it all
    This couldn't be a dream, for too real it all seems

    But it was just my imagination
    Runnin' away with me-once again
    Seems it was just my imagination
    Runnin' away with me

    Every night on my knees I pray
    Dear Lord hear my plea
    Don't ever let another take her away from me
    For I would surely die
    Her love is heavenly
    When her arms enfold me I hear a tender rhapsody
    But in reality, she doesn't even know me
    'Cause it was

    But it was just my imagination
    Runnin' away with me-once again
    Seems it was just my imagination
    Runnin' away with me Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 27

  • Gary Uk from UkThinking of Prince - or was it just my imagination ........Small Club The Hague 1988
  • Kenny from Cleveland, OhioThe Temptations mini-series got the lyrics wrong in this great song! It's "Out of all the fellas in the world she belongs to you" not to "me"!
  • Steve from CaliforniaThis is one of the most sad songs that I have ever heard and at the same time one of the greatest songs I have ever heard. The first time I ever heard the song I was stationed in Germany in the army in 1968.
  • Jennifur Suni know that this was Mr Eddies favorite song he ever played on always think of him when I hear it
  • Robin from NjPaul Williams was also suffering from sickle cell anemia and in and out of hospitals, thus, his financial problems. In order to keep working, he refused to take narcotic pain killers feeling it would dull his talent. He suffered terribly and most likely over used alcohol to self medicate the terrible pain he was in.
  • Chuck from SeattleThis sing together with the orchestration arrangement is one of the rinest and most amazing musical creations of all time. This song could have been expanded into so many movements and the story could have been told such that it would have been a timeless classic. Truly inspired, this tune is one of the best four minutes in the history of music and just keaves one wantimg more.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn May 30th 1980, the Temptations hosted the NBC-TV program 'The Midnight Special' and opened the show with this song.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn January 31st 1971, the Temptations performed "Just Imagination (Running Away With Me)" on the CBS-TV program 'The Ed Sullivan Show'...
    And on that very same day it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; and on March 28th, 1971 it peaked at #1 (for 2 weeks) and spent 15 weeks on the Top 100 (and for 9 of those 15 weeks it was in the Top 10)...
    It entered the Top 10 at #4, stayed at #4 the following week, then moved to #3 for 1 week, next was #2 for 1 week, and finally two weeks at #1...
    On February 28th, 1971 it reached #1 (for 3 weeks) on Billboard's R&B Sngles chart...
    The Rolling Stones covered it in 1978; was track 3 on their 16th American studio album, 'Some Girls'.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyGreat song; one the greatest intros of all time!!!
    Just a good song that even the Stones version is passable...
  • David from Youngstown, OhThe Stones remade this song on their 1978 smash album, Some Girls. The Stones called the song "Imagination," and change some of the lyrics to make them more sexually suggestive. The Stones' version is superior to the Temps. The Stones also do a better "Ain't To Proud To Beg" than the Temps. But the Stones' version of "My Girl" isn't listenable.
  • David from Atlanta, GaDidn't the Stones do a cover of this?
  • George from Louisville, KyMy how I let my imagination run away with me when I hear this song. Saw the Temps at Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana in the early 70's. God do me a favor and take me back just one more time.
  • Jimmy from Knox, TnThis is the best song Eddie Kendricks ever sang REST IN PEACE EDDIE
  • Guy from Woodinville, WaMan this is as good as Motown gets--what a song of perfection. Sad and evocative and poignant and SO SO beautiful!

    Thanks, Matt, Raleigh, NC for that tidbit. Interesting to listen for.
  • Laura from Hacienda Heights, CaI wrote a great comment about My Girl and I think the same comment can be used here. I simply get so emotional when I hear this song, too. I really can be anywhere -- hear the first few notes and I just shut out the world and melt. It's amazing, it really is.
  • Matt from Raleigh, NcSorry, that was Eddie Kendricks who sang lead.
  • Matt from Raleigh, NcClassic Jamerson lines - "I Was Made to Love Her", Bernadette", "What's Going on", etc. He inspired all bass players contemporaneous and those who came afterwards. Jamerson is Electric Bass 101.
  • Matt from Raleigh, NcThe orchestration in this song is unbelievable - tympani, harp, french horns, strings, etc. you can hear Paul Williams open his mouth to sing in between the 1st and 2nd lines. Such clarity and creativity in these types of recordings is sorely missed these days - and only 3 chords! An ironic farewell to both this lineup of the Temps and Motown's Detroit years, as shortly therafter, both were gone.
  • Mary from Yuma, AzI have always liked the Temptations, and this is one of my favorite. It's a very sad song, tear jerker, I guess I like those
  • Dave from Oak Park, MiYou're OK, I just equate a Motown Bass Groove on a song like "Reach Out I'll Be There" or "My Girl", that's all.

    Sorry I misunderstood...
  • Brian from Sydney, CanadaI wasn't saying that this bass line was ONE that inspired the McCartney bass. I meant that the Motown sound was the thing-this is an example of that Motown groove. Sorry if I came across unclear.
  • Dave from Oak Park, MiQUOTE: "Great song! The bass playing is that great Motown groove that inspired Paul McCartney in the mid-'60's. It changed his approach to songwriting and his own blass playing. A great song from a great singing group."

    Eh, I don't really notice anything that special about the Bass-lines on a song from NINETEEN-SEVENTY-ONE that would'a made its way into Paul McCartney's Bass Playing in the SIXTIES.

    Other than it being a "Great Song", I think that above fact is useless.
  • Brian from Sydney, CanadaGreat song! The bass playing is that great Motown groove that inspired Paul McCartney in the mid-'60's. It changed his approach to songwriting and his own blass playing. A great song from a great singing group.
  • Julie from Marquette, MiVery lovely song...how pining fo another hurts!!
  • Jay from New York, NyWho among us has not loved a person and not had that love returned? This song poignantly captures that feeling, perhaps more perfectly than any other song.
  • Clarke from Pittsburgh, PaOne of the saddest love songs ever written: it's all in his mind. "But in reality...she doesn't even know me." Heartbreaking and unforgettable.
  • Jordan from Springfeild, Arappears in the movie dicky roberts former child star
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