Dame Shirley Bassey - This Is My Life (Live at Carnegie Hall 1973)

"This Is My Life" sung by the one and only Dame Shirley Bassey in 1973 at Carnegie Hall.


Lyrics:


Funny how a lonely day, can make a person say:
What good is my life
Funny how a breaking heart, can make me start to say:
What good is my life
Funny how I often seem, to think I'll find never another dream
In my life
Till I look around and see, this great big world is part of me
And my life
This is my life
Today, tomorrow, love will come and find me
But that's the way that I was born to be
This is me
This is me

This is my life
And I don't give a damn for lost emotions
I've such a lot of love I've got to give
Let me live
Let me live

Sometime when I feel afraid, I think of what a mess I've made

Of my life
Crying over my mistakes, forgetting all the breaks I've had
In my life
I was put on earth to be, a part of this great world is me
And my life
Guess I'll just add up the score, and count the things I'm grateful for
In my life
This Is my life
Today, tomorrow, love will come and find me
But that's the way that I was born to be
This is me
This is me

This is my life
And I don't give a damn for lost emotions
I've such a lot of love I've got to give
Let me live
Let me live

This is my life
This is my life
This is my life

Category:

Music

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• dame
• shirley
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• this
• is
• my
• life
• diva
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• carnegie
• hall
• 1973
• la
• vita
• 1968

[emmaclaps]

To hear her but not see her is to miss so much

[Thorneycroft1937]

@emmaclaps

You are right, unfortunately this performance was never released on dvd.

[hollbri1]

terrible times-where is the sophistication gone?

we once had dorothy squires,eartha kitt,peggy lee,lena horne,judy garland-and today the musical world seems like a garbage dump for bad taste.

overrated singers who can't sing,freak shows for sick people,flat voices,thin voices without expression and style.

it seem that the philistine had taken the lead.

and the gratest female singer in the world seems to be retired in monte carlo.i don't want to belive that.

[neurostephen]

You can have every blood, sweat and tear of my life!

wow!

This is her life (and mine)!

[stoppastyretiiran]

@Thorneycroft1937 ok, sorry. Maybe I'm reading to much into it. But anyway, there's something she wont give, humorous or not, that noone could take?

[Thorneycroft1937]

@stoppastyretiiran I think she says except my butterfly, because she was wearing the butterfly gown in this legendary concert and kept talking about in during pauses between songs.

[stoppastyretiiran]

@Thorneycroft1937, except she also utters: "- Except my love.". I guess cocoababe was retoricall.

[123confine]

At this age of 73 she has the most powerful voice I've ever heard. She doesn't skimp on the notes. Like so many famous singers who overtime have aged, they can't hit those notes anymore. She can and probably alway will. I saw her in Carnegie Hall in 1973 and hopefully I get to see her before she goes into retirement one last time. What a dame!!!!

[gallinatremendissima]

Dame.

[emmaclaps]

Maybe it's because performers are emotional.Just a thought.

[cristovado]

Why is it that every time I hear this lady weeping with emotion?

[jasjas2006]

The single most incredible vocal I have ever heard in my life....I met her handed her a dozen roses..I kissed her she kissed me and I have not been the same since!