Kenny Rogers
Written by Steve Dorff and Marty Panzer
Album : Share Your Love
lyrics
[Verse 1]
I can't remember when you weren't there
When I didn't care for anyone but you
I swear we've been through everything there is
Can't imagine anything we've missed
Can't imagine anything the two of us can't do
[Chorus]
Through the years, you've never let me down
You turned my life around, the sweetest days I've found
I've found with you... through the years
I've never been afraid, I've loved the life we've made
And I'm so glad I've stayed, right here with you
Through the years
[Verse 2]
I can't remember what I used to do
Who I trusted, whom I listened to before
I swear you've taught me everything I know
Can't imagine needing someone so
But through the years it seems to me
I need you more and more
Through the years, through all the good and bad
I knew how much we had, I've always been so glad
To be with you ... through the years
It's better every day, you've kissed my tears away
As long as it's okay, I'll stay with you
Through the years
Through the years, when everything went wrong
Together we were strong, I know that I belonged
Right here with you... through the years
I never had a doubt, we'd always work things out
I've learned what love's about, by loving you
Through the years
[Chorus]
Through the years, you've never let me down
You turned my life around, the sweetest days I've found
I've found with you... through the years
I've never been afraid, I've loved the life we've made
And I'm so glad I've stayed, right here with you
Through the years
Kenneth Donald "Kenny" Rogers (born August 21, 1938)
is an American singer-songwriter, photographer, record producer, actor,
entrepreneur and author. Though he has been most successful with country
audiences, he has charted more than 120 hit singles across various music genres
and topping the country and pop album charts for more than 200 individual weeks
in the United States alone.
https://www.lyrics.com/artist/Kenny-Rogers/93355
"Through the Years" is a song written by Steve Dorff and Marty Panzer, and recorded by American country music artist Kenny Rogers. It was released in December 1981 as the fourth single from the album Share Your Love.
"Through the Years" reached
number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in early 1982,
remaining in the Top 40 for eleven
weeks and went to number one on the adult
contemporary chart, becoming Rogers' fifth single to top this chart.[ The song peaked at number five on
the country chart.[ Rogers credited "Through the
Years" as being one of his career songs, though it had relatively little
success in North America. Rogers appeared and performed the song at
the 1983 Grammy Awards[ and at an April 2001 halftime
ceremony honoring Charles Barkley at
a Philadelphia 76ers game.
Rogers' version was a cover of Stevie Woods'
"Through the Years" that appeared 6 months earlier on his 1981
album Take Me to Your Heaven,[6]
American gospel singer and
pastor Norman Hutchins did
his own version of "Through the Years" in 1992, with slightly altered
lyrics. [7]
The Osmonds performed a cover of
"Through the Years".
On his 50th anniversary TV special
Rogers performed a version of the song with his two friends Lionel Richie and Dolly Parton which also included archive
footage of him working with both on various projects through the years.
The song looks back
at a relationship "Through The Years" and mentions the ups and downs,
but the singer proclaims to his loved one: I'm so glad I stayed right here with you / Through the years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Through_the_Years_(Kenny_Rogers_song)
