"My Heart Belongs to You" — a blues man's complete surrender of ownership.
My heart belongs to only you
I've never loved as I love you
You set a flame within me burning
A flame to stay within me years
It's just for you I want to live
It's just to you my heart I give
I'll always be your slave, my darling
Through the coming years
There was sometime when I was doubtful
Of this new love affair
But now my mind is no more doubtful
I found my heaven with the help of a prayer
You are the song within my soul
A melody that can grow
I've known for long my heart belongs to
Only you
There was sometime when I was doubtful
Of this new love affair
But now my mind is no more doubtful
I found my heaven with the help of a prayer
You are the song within my soul
A melody that can grow
I've known for long my heart belongs to
Only you
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- A B.B. King recording. The total surrender — heart given, not lent — is the blues tradition's most radical romantic statement, all the more poignant for being so rarely honoured.