Tammy: Doug always makes sure I get a beautiful, lyrical gift from far away for each FAWM. Always wonderful to discover that we can keep finding songs in the air. I wish it was sung better and produced more, but I got sick for a few days and had other issues...you know...life. Doug knows I try my best.
Doug: So evocative and beautiful! I hear a bit of Joni and a tinge of Phoebe Snow and even a little Billie Holiday, but really it's all Tammy and it's all wonderful. Your voice goes to unexpected places and I love that. Thank you for another heartwarming song!
Be There for Me
by Doug Haberman and Tammy Jann
© 2022
When the morning mist hides the lake water’s glint
When the light comes in slant through the trees
My love will pour like a waterfall rushing
Be there for me
Be there for me
When the pelicans glide in a V through the air
When the whitecaps dance bright on the seas
My love will flow like a long river running
Be there for me
Be there for me
Be there for me
(Bridge)
My heart’s been wingless
In dreams it soars
It just needs love
Please give me yours
Ohhhhh
Please give me yours
When the night slips away and the colored dawn climbs
You’re the first sight I’d like to see
Our love could fly like the wind in the high clouds
Be there for me
@andrea Mar 2022
Such beautiful images and feeling in this song. Lovely lyrics and music. The vocals really capture the emotion very nicely. It's a wonderful love song. Fantastic collab!
@wolfkier Mar 2022
Such a great lyric, and then our Tammy grabs a hold and makes it soar like a kite. We're in a level of sublime that needs to come with a "don't operate heavy machinery" warning. :)
What a great collab, and a wonderful earful of delight! :)
@sherrycanary Feb 2022
Lovely evocative lyric
Great vocals. I love the unexpected places you go
Nice jazzy chords too
Beautiful collab
@zeekle1998 Feb 2022
What a fantastic lyric and performed so beautifully. A great laid back feel.
@edward9thstreet Feb 2022
Uplifting vocal and music really complements the universal appeal of this lyric. What a great pairing of talent, nice collab.
@greengrassgirl Feb 2022
Wow! This is wonderful. I love the vocal expression, and of course, you can't beat Doug's lyrics. Very nice collab! I hear Phoebe Snow, too. What a gift!
@grayland Feb 2022
Oh Yeah!! The melody you've written here is phenomenal!! So unique..it flows like that wind you sing about and goes to places I'd never expect but are so very sweet!! Dougs lyrics are awesome too. I don't hear a single flaw in your voice so I sure couldn't tell you were not feeling well. As always that million dollar voice steals the show!!!
@chandra83 Feb 2022
Beautiful! <3
@lcad Feb 2022
The vocals just steal the show here, your voice is beautiful! Love the changes, jazzy, warm. Feels like a new standard. Lovely
@oswlek Feb 2022
Some really juicy chord changes on this piece. I can't help but wonder what it would sound like played on the piano with a less active delivery. Not as many "strums" or trills, just chords ringing out and sustaining. I think it would be gorgeous.
Of course Tammy's vocal is divine and Doug's lyric is endearingly romantic, but those are so obvious to almost be perfunctory at this point!
@liz561 Feb 2022
So dreamy. What a delivery on the lyrics. And such breezy guitar playing.
@colgoo Feb 2022
Gorgeous collaboration! Tammy and Doug, you know I am a huge fan of each of you….How could I NOT listen to this one? I love this.
@unkept Feb 2022
Lovely performance and lyrics, especially that final verse. Beautiful collaboration!
@eas3637 Feb 2022
Beautiful! Agree with the Joni Mitchell comparisons. Tammy, you interpret the lyrics in such a gorgeous way ("be there for me" is just stunning). This song has a great, indefinable melancholy flavor to it - such a pleasure to listen to.
@cloudhopper Feb 2022
lovely song!
@caseewilson Feb 2022
This is a gorgeous collaboration - really beautiful! The vocals are smooth and emotive, the guitar lists and glues everything. Wonderful!
@carleybaer Feb 2022
So beautiful and evocative! There’s something about it that reminds me of some later Joni Mitchell stuff.
@geoff61 Feb 2022
Oh this is totally great I think that you two are a perfect musical match, one of my fav's is this.
@tseaver Feb 2022
Nice collab: the strong visuals of the lyric are well supported both by the vocal and the subtle guitar. Cool lift into the bridge.
@jessicamoon Feb 2022
I love the tremor in certain parts of your vocals, the moments you chose really worked to convey emotion. Lovely song!
@guatecoop Feb 2022
Oh wow, this is really beautiful. I needed to hear this one tonight. It’s so classic right away—everything from the lyrics, melody, the sound of the guitar, the sentiment….it’s all there in a complete song. It’s not simple at all, but it sounds that way because of both of your attention to detail. Excellent. Well done
@wylddandelyon Feb 2022
It's so cool when you have someone you know you can make good music with!
Nice love song. "My heart's been wingless...Our love could fly like the wind" Yes.
@coolparadiso Feb 2022
I knew this would be good! The lyric really suits this delivery. Yu 2 both turn out such good stuff. You really hold the notes so long and clean on this!
@kahlo2013 Feb 2022
Wow! This is absolutely beautiful. I love that gentle guitar and the beautiful melody that suits the gorgeous images of the lyric so well. Magical love song.
@mikeb Feb 2022
Great chord choices evoking a mood of hope, love and foreverness.
Great changeup in the bridge.
@kenmattsson Feb 2022
This is the whole package. Really evocative lyrics, and I love your vocals with all the bends. Like listening to butterscotch. So lovely.
@jacobeverettwallace Feb 2022
What an awesome lyric and fantastic interpretation and delivery of it! Great collab! Tammy's vocal just glides right along and the whole song has a magical quality about it. Well done.
@cindyrella Feb 2022
This is full of so many choice things! I do love this lyric , and you have made it soar! It gave me goosebumps just from the sheer beauty of it! Wonderful Collab!