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Higher Love\r\nReleased on the album \"Back in the High Life\" in 1986 on Island Records.\r\nWords and Music by Steve Winwood and Will Jennings\r\nKey of F. Time signature 4\/4. Tempo = 99.\r\nTranscription by Hisao Chida\r\n \r\n \r\n[Intro]\r\n{Drum solo}\r\n \r\n|   ||N.C.  |     |     ||\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n[Enters conga]\r\n \r\n|     |     |     |\r\n \r\n \r\n[Verse A-1]\r\n(0:18-) {Enters electric piano}\r\n \r\n           ||Bb<\/span>    F<\/span>           |Eb<\/span>          F<\/span>    |\r\nThink about___ it,   there must be__ higher love\r\n|Eb<\/span>          Bb<\/span>             |Gm<\/span>             F<\/span>\r\n Down in the heart or hidden in the stars a-bove\r\n    |Bb<\/span>      F<\/span>          |Eb<\/span>          F<\/span>  |\r\nWith-out it,   life is a wasted time\r\n|Eb<\/span>          Bb<\/span>              |F<\/span>           C<\/span>   ||\r\n Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine\r\n \r\n \r\n[Verse B-1]\r\n(0:37-) {Enters mute guitar}\r\n \r\n|C<\/span>                   |Dm<\/span>         |\r\n   Things look so bad everywhere\r\n\r\n|C<\/span>                     |Am<\/span>      Bb<\/span>    |\r\n   In this whole world, what is fair?\r\n|C<\/span>                     |Bb<\/span>     F<\/span>     |\r\n   We walk blind and we try to see\r\n|C<\/span>                       |Am<\/span>    Dm<\/span>  ||\r\n   Falling behind in what could be\r\n \r\n \r\n[Chorus 1]\r\n(0:58-) {Enter brass}\r\n \r\n|:Bb<\/span>           F<\/span>          |C<\/span>     Dm<\/span>          :|\r\n    Bring me a higher love\r\n    Bring me a higher love, whoa\r\n    Bring me a higher love         What's that\r\n|Bb<\/span>        F<\/span>          |Dm<\/span>       C<\/span>\r\n   higher  love I keep thinking of?____\r\n \r\n \r\n[Verse A-2]\r\n(1:16-)\r\n \r\n Worlds are turning  and we're just hanging on\r\n Facing our fear and standing out there alone\r\n A yearning, and it's real to me\r\n There must be someone who's feeling for me\r\n \r\n \r\n[Instrumental break]\r\n \r\n|:Dm    C\/D  Dm  Am7 |Dm            :| (x 2)\r\n \r\n \r\n[Verse B-1]\r\n(1:46-)\r\n \r\n \r\n[Chorus 1]\r\n(2:05-)\r\n \r\n \r\n[Chorus 2]\r\n(2:24-)\r\n \r\n Bring me a higher love\r\n Bring me a higher love\r\n Bring be a higher love  I could\r\n rise above on a higher love\r\n \r\n \r\n[Bridge]\r\n(2:45-) {No guitar}\r\n \r\n| Bb  C    Dm    |     C    Bb | C   Dm     |     C   Bb |\r\n  I   will wait for it           I'm not too late for it\r\n| Bb  C    Dm         |C       Bb   | C   Dm       |C       Bb\r\n  Un- til  then,  I'll sing my song   To  cheer the night a-long\r\n \r\n{Enter cutting guitar and funky brass}\r\n      ||Dm    C\/D  Dm  Am7 |Dm    |    C\/D  Dm  Am7|5\/4 Dm     |\r\nBring   it                                                 Um__\r\n \r\n|4\/4 Dm    C\/D  Dm  C\/D |2\/4 Dm  |4\/4    C\/D  Dm  Am7||\r\n \r\n|C                                 |                |\r\n I could light the night up with my soul on fire\r\n|C                              |Bb            |\r\n I could make the sun shine from pure desire\r\n|Bb     Dm       |Eb             Bb   |\r\n Let me feel that love come over me\r\n|Dm     Bb      |F               C    ||\r\n Let me feel how strong it could be\r\n \r\n|N.C.\/C  |       |       |        ||\r\n                           Oh_____\r\n \r\n \r\n[Chorus 1]\r\n(3:50-)\r\n \r\n \r\n[Coda]\r\n(4:09-)\r\n \r\n|:Bb   F   |C    Dm  :| (X 2)\r\n \r\n{Female vocals, only with drums}\r\n|F            C           |          |\r\n  (Bring me a higher love)\r\n|F            C           |   Dm            |\r\n  (Bring me a higher love, oh____ ) Bring me\r\n|F            C           |           |\r\n  (Bring me a higher love)   Oh______\r\n|F            C           |    Dm             |\r\n  (Bring me a higher love) Oh,_____\r\n \r\n \r\n[Enter others]\r\n(4:37-)\r\n \r\n|:Bb         F           |C     Dm    :|\r\n  Bring me a higher love  (repeat ad lib to fade)\r\n
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Higher Love Released on the album “Back in the High Life” in 1986 on Island Records. Words and Music by Steve Winwood and Will Jennings Key of F. Time signature 4\/4. Tempo = 99. Transcription by Hisao Chida [Intro] {Drum solo} | ||N.C. | | || [Enters conga] | | … CLICK TO VIEW SONGHigher Love<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28877,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28876\/revisions\/28877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}