Song Description
Written for a male singer. A multi-generational song that follows a couple from teeange love, to having children, to when the wife has dementia and is in a nursing home. Through it all the husband loves her deeply, even when she no longer recognizes him. When people ask him why does he continue to go to see her every day in the nursing home when she doesn't know who he is, he says "Its the way she makes me feel..."
| Song Length |
4:21 |
Genre |
Country - Contemporary, Country - General |
| Tempo |
Slow (71 - 90) |
Lead Vocal |
Female Vocal |
| Similar Artists |
Kenny Rogers |
Era |
2000 and later |
Lyrics
The Way She Makes Me Feel
Summertime and seventeen, walking in the creek in cut off jeans
First kiss took his breath away they're both weak in the knees
Isn't long before he kneels to ask her, she's melting in his arms as she says yes
Then he's springing up the old porch steps a little nervous in his Sunday best
Asking for her hand
Her Daddy says "You're both too young,
How could you know that you have found the one?"
"It's the way she makes me feel when I look into her eyes
Like I'm swimmin' in the deep end, totally alive
Every hope and dream that I could dream is living breathing real
Now there's nothing in the world I need
except the way she makes me feel"
Fast forward now their youngest son he has his mother's smile
And he takes the stairs just like his Daddy--two at a time
Mom and Dad they have big plans for their son out in the world
But he is happy close to home, 'cause he's met the girl
of his dreams
They try to tell him he's too young
Oh but father cannot argue with his son when he says,
It's the way she makes me feel when I look into her eyes
Like I'm swimmin' in the deep end, totally alive
Every hope and dream that I could dream is living breathing real
There's nothing in the world I need
except the way she makes me feel
Seven grandkids later, Mama had to move to the nursing home
He couldn't keep her safe at home alone
But every day he's there for breakfast, walks up with his cane
Every day she smiles politely and asking him his name
He's courting her again
People tell him "Why go every day
When she doesn't even recognize your face?"
It's the way she makes me feel when I look into her eyes
Like I'm swimmin' in the deep end, totally alive
Every hope and dream that I could dream is living breathing real
There's nothing in the world I need
except the way she makes me feel
'cept the way she makes me feel
Patricia Bahia ASCAP
Harmony Bay Music Publishing ASCAP
Patricia@PatriciaBahia.com 310-450-3096