Katie Melua - I Will Be There (Full Concert Version) - Official Video

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1. Lyrics.
2. Song background from femalefirst.co.uk/music/interviews/katie-melua-exclusive-interview-329031.html

"I Will Be There"
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
She is like the lady down the road
Or just the woman up the street
Like any mother you may know
To me, she is the one who had it planned
To lead us all to Wonderland
She always wanted us to go

[Chorus]
And she said
Don't ever be lonely
Remember, I'll always care
Wherever you may be
Remember I will be there

[Verse 2]
And like another lady that we know
She has a smile so bright and sweet
And hair as white as driven snow
Though life is never easy day to day
She has a very special way
To make us smile when we are low

[Chorus]
And she says
Don't ever be lonely
Remember, I'll always care
Wherever you may be
Remember I will be there

[Outro]
Don't ever be lonely
Remember, I will be there
I will be there
I will be there"

Background from https://www.femalefirst.co.uk/music/interviews/katie-melua-exclusive-interview-329031.html
You are about to release your new single, I Will Be There so what can fans expect from the track this time around?

I Will Be There was a special song that was commissioned for the Coronation Festival; it was a song that my long-time producer Mike Batt wrote. I didn’t envy his position... My job was to sing it, and I just thought ‘I will just try to do as best a job as I can’.
It was very emotional because the song is about all the mother figures and a nod to her majesty.
But what happened during the making of this last album and during the writing of that song was that my mum was diagnosed with cancer, and passed away; it was literally two or three months after she was diagnosed. The song had a very personal meaning for all of us.
He did such an exquisite job on it as a writer, and it immediately belonged to the spirit of the record; we just had to have it on there. We have had some good feedback and some lovely comments about it after I had performed it at the Coronation Gala to have it as the first single just seemed appropriate.

- As you say Mike Batt wrote this song for you to perform for the Coronation Gala so what was it about this track that you liked when you heard it for the first time?
Mike and I have worked together for a decade together - we are celebrating ten years this year - and I always get excited when Mike Batt writes a song. He actually played me a different version of it, but it wasn’t quite right and was in a completely different direction.
However, it was when those bits that were going on in our personal lives started to come through and influence the song that it really took on this very immense essence. I was just moved when I heard it.
I would like to think that this song that helped him through this difficult period. So that is what I was thinking when I first heard it.

- This is the first single to be lifted off your new album Ketevan, so how does this track introduce us to the rest of this record?
It is difficult to say because there are definitely parts of the album that are like this single. The interesting thing about this album that I want people to realise is that there is a lot of variety on there.
It goes from the melodic, epic world that I Will Be There inhabits, to very folky music, to jazz songs and then also quite rocky/blue songs; so there is a lot of variety. So this track is very much just one side of the album.
The album, to me, I would have to say is the best way to sum me up; there are a lot of styles on there, but it is my little baby steps back to trying to be reflective again. I have also started doing some song-writing again, which is quite difficult when you have a junior song-writer in your team (laughs).
Mike encouraged me at the beginning of this album to come up with some songs myself, and I really tried to get to that level.

- You have touched on my next question really. You have returned to song writing with this record so how difficult a process was getting back into that?
Well, I always write when I am inspired, and I am not a constant song-writer. But I enjoy singing other people’s songs as I get a lot of pure enjoyment and happiness from that. It is tricky to sit down and write my own tunes - especially when I have sung some of the best songs ever written.
So you almost end up comparing what you are writing to the greatest songs that have been written; that is what makes it difficult and slows me down. But I still battle on because expressing and coming up with melodies...
Expressing yourself through lyrics and words and trying to find little phrases and sentences, to sum up, life and emotion is something that I really adore and love.

- We have talked about Mike Batt already, and he is a long-time collaborator of yours, and you are working with him for this album. So what was it like working with him once again?
We have never really stopped, to be honest. The fourth album is categorised as the album where Mike and I didn’t work together; he was still executive producer on that album, and he helped me find William Orbit. So he was still very much on board and helped me find the material.
We have been a solid team for all of these years; just like any relationships we have had lots of ups and downs and left and rights. It has been nice to have been able to carve a relationship together as a creative team. I am and always will be immensely grateful for our beginnings and where we are today.

- You clearly have a great working relationship but what is about Mike that makes you want to work with him again and again?
First of all, it is his songs. His lyrics and his melodies are just beautiful. There are a few albums on this new album that he has written that ate just beautiful, and I just think ‘how does he do it?’ His song craft is just amazing.
I have worked with a lot of modern writers, but he is a unique songwriter as he is so much about the lyrical detail. The title is also incredibly important because if he feels that the title doesn’t sum up his song, then that is it; he thinks of it as a really impossible wall of song writing to climb if you don’t have a title.
There is a song on this album called Never Felt Less Like Dancing, and you just know instantly that Mike has that title and the song, and the essence of the song is those few words."

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Thanks for sharing Kerry. That was wonderful!

Nice one, have not heard Katie before.