The Sweetest Days

Album: The Sweetest Days (1994)
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  • You and I in this moment,
    Holding the night so close,
    Hanging on, still unbroken
    while outside the thunder rolls.
    Listen now you can her my heart beat
    warm against life's bitter cold.

    These are the days.
    the sweetest days we'll know.

    There are times that scare me.
    We'll rattle the house like the wind,
    both of us so unbending.
    We battle the fear within.
    All the while life is rushing by us.
    Hold it now and don't let go.

    These are the days.
    the sweetest days we'll know.

    So, we'll whisper a dream here in the darkness.
    Watching the stars till their gone.
    And when even the mem'ries have all faded away,
    these days go on and on.

    Listen now, you can hear my heartbeat.
    Hold me now and don't let go.
    (These are the days,)
    ev'ry day is the sweetest day we'll know.
    (These are the days,)


    Writer/s: JON LIND, PHILIP EDWARD GALDSTON, WENDY WALDMAN
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 3

  • Ryan De Haas from MarylandVanessa explained in her concert that that The Sweetest Days was actually written about her children.
  • Left High Kick from Middle Class Usa During the COVID-19 pandemic, and the shut in order, I got to think about my life and prior relationships.

    Little did I know that looking back now, those times with a certain someone were the sweetest days. She used to read to me from 1001 Arabian nights. I never had someone do that before. I used to gently stroke her head and hold her close before she fell asleep. She would fall asleep instantly. She would ask me to do that. She felt comforted.

    I miss those days. My sweetest days.

    She’s better off without me though.
  • Heavy D from Los AngelesI remember my ex girlfriend and I took a trip down to Orange County / Laguna Niguel one time and we listen to the song outside of one of the well-known steakhouses there. We basically enjoyed this song together and it makes me think of our relationship back then. I think of the times when the relationship was blossoming, a new love blossoming, it was so pure, so clean, innocent, and very very passionate.

    The time spent with her in the early years were the sweetest days I’ll ever know. I’ll probably never feel that way again. I never felt that way before her, and I never had anyone talk to me the way she did.

    Ultimately, things went South due to other factors but I still think of those early years with her when I hear this song, good memories because they were the sweetest days for sure.

    She was as beautiful as Vanessa Williams too, maybe more.
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