Still

Lady, morning's just a moment away
And I'm without you once again

Still 0:30 wakes up every morning to the same emptiness. Lady, morning is just a moment away and he is without her once again. The cycle keeps repeating. Every dawn brings the same ache. The love did not leave. The person did.

The present tense of the title is the tragedy. Not was. Not used to be. Still. He is still in love with someone who is gone. Some loves outlast the people who carried them.

Original or Cover

The Original -- 1979

The Commodores

The Commodores won their first Grammy in 1978 for Three Times a Lady. It also reached No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100, their first pop chart-topper.

Floating Player

The Cover -- 1994

Boyz II Men

Boyz II Men are the best-selling R&B group with 64 million records. They had four No.1 Hot 100 hits including End of the Road.

Floating Player

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Still

Written by Lionel Richie

Lady, morning's just a moment away
And I'm without you once again

This song is about...

a love that ended so completely that he is stuck in the aftermath, unable to move forward. The Commodores recorded it as a ballad with Lionel Richie on lead vocals, his voice carrying the kind of gentle heartbreak that defined his early solo work. The title says everything: he is still in love, still waiting, still hoping, even though the relationship is over. a portrait of emotional paralysis, the kind that sets in when the heart refuses to accept what the mind already knows.

That same paralysis gets a vocal-harmony treatment from

The Commodores or Boyz

The Commodores

1979

The Commodores won their first Grammy in 1978 for Three Times a Lady. It also reached No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100, their first pop chart-topper.

Boyz II Men

1994

Boyz II Men are the best-selling R&B group with 64 million records. They had four No.1 Hot 100 hits including End of the Road.

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