Time after time

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Since the 1980s, I have always loved Cyndi Lauper. At one time in her life, she was dismissed as just a pop singer who cannot write songs. Naysayers were proven wrong with this song that has been covered by almost everyone. When she wrote this, Cyndi was in a relationship about to break, while her co-writer had just emerged from one. They said this song is NOT a happy song but it is a hopeful one.

“Struggling over the chorus on the phone with Hyman, Lauper suddenly felt a hand on her shoulder then started thinking of up and down, falling and catching, which made up the iconic chorus of “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
If you’re lost, you can look and you will find me
Time after time
If you fall, I will catch you, I will be waiting
Time after time

“It just came out like that,” said Lauper. “I don’t know who’s hand went on my shoulder because I was alone, but whosoever hand that was, I think they had a hand in helping me write that chorus.”

Time After Time is about a love that stays after your partner has left.

This is another song by Cyndi Lauper that I have loved after True Colors. I remember sitting in our living room as a child in the 1980s spending afternoons listening to the radio. This song hits differently compared to the tunes being played during those times. It still hits different until now.

Her musicality and writing has developed over the years, which enabled her to write and compose songs for the hit Broadway musical “Kinky Boots” that won six Tony Awards, including best musical. During her acceptance speech during the Tony Awards, she said felt she was was an outsider in Broadway even though she has been a New Yorker through and through—but at that moment, she felt that she was finally accepted by the NY theater community (if I remember it correctly).

And I wrote this entry after singing for almost three hours to Youtube karaoke songs. This is nothing—I used to sing onstage for more than three hours years ago.