CHICAGO


18

(1986)



1. Niagara Falls 3'45
(Steve Kipner / Bobby Caldwell)
2. Forever 5'20
(Robert Lamm / Bill Gable)
3. If She Would Have Been Faithful ... 3'51
(Steve Kipner / Randy Goodrum)
4. 25 Or 6 To 4 4'22
(Robert Lamm / James Pankow)
5. Will You Still Love Me ? 5'43
(David Foster / Tom Keane / Richard Baskin)
6. Over And Over 4'20
(Robert Lamm / James Newton Howard / Steve Lukather)
7. It's Alright 4'29
(Bill Champlin / David Foster)
8. Free Flight 0'25
(James Pankow)
9. Nothin's Gonna Stop Us Now 4'52
(Jason Scheff / Buzz Feiten)
10. I Believe 4'23
(Bill Champlin)
11. One More Day 4'13
(James Pankow / Carmen Grillo)

Total Time: 45:18


  • Jason Scheff - Electric Bass, Lead & Background Vocals
  • Bill Champlin - Pianos, Keyboards, Guitars
  • Robert Lamm - Pianos, Keyboards, Percussion, Lead & Background Vocals
  • Lee Loughnane - Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Cornet, Guitar, Percussion, Background Vocals
  • James Pankow - Trombone, Percussion, Background Vocals
  • Walt Parazaider - Saxophones, Flute, Clarinet
  • Danny Seraphine - Drums, Percussion
  • KID's CHOIR On "One More Day":
    Rebecca Clinger
    Christorher Leach
    Julie Leach
    Myhanh Tran
    Peter Wade
    Jason Pasol
    Brandon Roberts
    Alitzah Wiener
    Betty Joyce
    Laurie Parazider
    Felicia Parazaider
    Melody Wright
    Bettina Bush

    Produced by David Foster
    Engineered & Mixed by Humberto Gatica
    Jules Chaikin - String Contractor
    Gerald Vinci - Concertmaster
    Art Direction by Jeffrey Kent Ayeroff
    Design by Hugh Brown and Jeri Mcmanus
    Mario Sarno - Album Cover: Mosaic
    Hugh Brown - Photography
    Guy Webster - Dust Sleeve Photography
    Kali Korn - Stylist, Wardrobe

    Recorded at
    CHART MAKER STUDIO, Malibu

    Assistant Engineer: Claudio Ordenes
    SKYLINE RECORDING COMPANY, Malibu (Horn Sessions)

    Assistant Engineers: Britt Bacon, David Garfield
    LION SHARE RECORDING STUDIO, Los Angeles

    Assistant Engineer: Laura Livingston

    Originally Mastered at STERLING SOUND, New York By George Marino

    KID's CHOIR Conductor On "One More Day": John Joyce
    Kid's Choir Contractor On "One More Day": Betty Joyce

    Chart Information:

    Oct. '86 - Chicago 18 - Chart Position 35

  • Nov. '86 - Will You Still Love Me / 25 or 6 To 4 - Chart Position 3
  • Jul. '87 - Niagara Falls - Chart Position 91
  • Oct. '87 - If She Would Have Been Faithful / Forever - May '87 Chart Position 17



    1. Niagara Falls

      Baby, so you think you can start again?
      You got somebody new,
      But the same thing keeps happening.
      At the moment of truth,
      Whoever you're loving,
      You will be thinking of me.

    chorus:

    As long as Niagara falls,
    As long as Gibraltar stands,
    Till hell freezes over
    I'll always be your man.

      Tell me, when you're there lying by his side.
      Do you make him believe all your needs have been satisfied?
      Does he know that your heart is taken forever ?
      Girl, you will always be mine.

    chorus

      Time can't erase
      What you feel in your heart
      You can't replace the love
      No, it doesn't matter how hard you try.
      Girl, you're gonna miss my loving till the day you die.

      Till hell freezes over

    chorus

    alternate chorus:

    As long as Niagara falls,
    Until the end of time,
    Till hell freezes over,
    You are forever mine

    chorus

    2. Forever

      Every day it seems we hear the same old story.
      Every day there's lovers giving up on love.
      People say it's just a fact of modern living.
      All around us, people fall in love and marry.
      Then we hear they're breaking up, and wonder why ?
      Did they mean it when they said it was forever ?
      All I know is what I feel.

    chorus:

    Forever
    Is a long, long time.
    Longer than we ever realize.
    Forever
    Is a long, long time.
    I'm gonna love you the rest of my life.
    Forever.

      Every day I spend with you, I call it lucky,
      Every night we touch and speak the words of love.
      Did I mean it when I said it was forever ?
      All I know is what I feel.

    chorus

      I'm gonna love you the rest of my life
      Forever

    3. If She Would Have Been Faithful ...

      I was thinking about her
      Visiting the past
      Reconstructing details with old photographs
      Studying the faces
      With an objective point of view
      Suddenly remembering doesn't haunt me
      At the time you couldn't tell me
      That one day I'd be glad
      That something that I thought was love was misinterpreted
      She had another lover- she emphatically denied
      But they were doin' me a favor
      A blessing in disguise

    chorus:

    If she would have been faithful
    If she could have been true
    Then I would've been cheated
    I would never know real love
    I would've missed out on you

      I watch you sleeping- your body touchin' me
      There's no doubt about it
      This is where I want to be
      It's so ironic- I had to lose to win
      I want to thank her (Thank her again)
    Chorus

    Bridge:

    It's a paradox- full of contradiction
    How I got from there to here
    It defies a
    Logical explanation

    Chorus

    4. 25 or 6 to 4

      Waiting for the break of day
      Searching for something to say
      Flashing lights against the sky
      Giving up I close my eyes
      Sitting cross-legged on the floor
      Twenty-five or six to four

      Staring blindly into space
      Getting up to splash my face
      Wanting just to stay awake
      Wond'ring how much I can take
      Should I try to do some more
      Twenty-five or six to four

      Feeling like I ought to sleep
      Spinning room is sinking deep
      Waiting for the break of day
      Searching for something to say
      Twenty-five or six to four
      Twenty-five or six to four

    5. Will You Still Love Me

      Take me as I am
      Put your hand in mine now and forever
      Darling here I stand, stand before you now
      Deep inside I always knew
      It was you, you and me
      Two hearts drawn together bound by destiny
      It was you and you for me
      Every road leads to your door
      Every step I take forever more

    chorus:

    Just say you'll love me for the rest of your life
    I gotta lot of love and I don't want to let go
    Will you still love me for the rest of my life ?
    'Cause I can't go on
    No, I can't go on
    I can't go on
    If I'm on my own

      Take me as I am
      Put your heart in mine, stay with me forever
      'Cause I am just a man who never understood
      I never had a thing to prove
      Till there was you
      You and me
      Then it all came clear so suddenly
      How close to you that I wanna be

    chorus

    bridge:

    Do you believe a love could run so stong?
    Do you believe a love could pass you by?
    There was no special one for me
    I was the lovely one, you see
    But then my heart lost all control
    Now you're all that I know

    chorus

    6. Over And Over

      Fireworks,
      Fireflys,
      On the roof watching summer night skies.
      All the boys,
      All the girls,
      All the time making love with our eyes.
      Life just went on for us
      Day after day
      We could fly ! - Oh !
      Cocky, so confident
      There was no way we could die.

    chorus:

    Over, over and over again.
    Life is a circle,
    But it's over and over again.
    Over, over.

      Little words,
      Little games,
      The dramas we played, left behind.
      Little friends,
      Little names,
      Puppy lovers we had...(love was blind).
      Life just went on for us D
      ay after day
      Screaming by ! - Oh !
      Fast as a shooting star
      Cruising the midnight sky !

    chorus

    7. It's Alright

      All dressed up
      With no place to go,
      Somebody lost a romance.
      All messed up,
      But you never know,
      This may be a good chance.
      You can hold me.
      I can make it better.
      You can hold me.
      Don't have to fall in love forever.
      I'll be there one night at a time.
      You don't have to love me
      If that's not what you're after.

      Oh, oh, oh and it's
      Alright.
      I got the time.
      Alright
      To tell one more little lie.
      And it's alright
      I'll make you feel fine.
      Alright
      If it's all night.

      Ain't nobody home
      Don't you hang your head,
      Don't get caught up in the sorrow.
      All alone
      Call me up instead,
      Let me take you to tomorrow.
      Let me hold you.
      I'll make you feel better.
      Let me hold you.
      Don't have to fall in love forever.
      Don't be scared to call anytime.
      You don't have to love me
      If that's not what you're after.
      Oh, oh, oh and it's ...

    chorus:

    Oh oh oh oh oh oh.
    Oh oh oh oh oh oh.
    Oh oh oh oh oh oh.
    It's alright to give it one more try.
    Oh oh oh oh oh oh.
    It's alright to live it up tonight.

    8. Nothin's Gonna Stop Us Now

      He was lost, uncertain.
      Only she could see
      He was waiting for the night to end.
      And with just one kiss
      Brought him back into the light again.
      He said nothin's gonna stop us now.
      He said baby, nothing's gonna stop us now.

      But tonight, she's waiting
      For a stranger's touch at the dark end of a street
      And the whispered words from the sidewalk
      They sound so sweet
      He says nothin's gonna stop us now.
      She said baby, nothin's gonna stop us now.

      Look out now, 'cause she'll break your heart again
      No one sees what the years have failed to mend, yeh.
      Standin' there beneath the street lights.
      Telling secrets in the darkest night.
      Heaven's just a stolen kiss away.

      And her look, it lingers
      On a restless night when you're back on the street again.
      With his empty dreams, there's another broken heart to mend.
      He says nothing's gonna stop us now.
      They said baby, nothing's gonna stop us now.
      I'm telling you baby, nothin's gonna stop us now.
      They said baby, nothin' gonna stop us now.

      And tonight, she's waiting
      On

    9. I Believe

      I used to be the first one to cry
      So afraid of a lonely tomorrow.
      Heartache was all that I had
      To call my own- so all alone.
      You came along and gave to my life
      Something more than the pain and the sorrow.
      Now that you're with me, we'll never be alone,
      In love, in love.

    chorus:

    I believe
    In the love that you gave,
    I believe
    In the life that you saved,
    I believe how you make me feel
    Today
    I believe in you

      Night after night, I waited alone
      For something deeper than yesterday's feelings.
      Never believing that love would ever come
      To me- oh no.
      Then there was you, and out of the blue,
      Once a heart that was broken was healing.
      Love is the reason we'll never be alone,
      Oh no- oh no

    chorus

      I still believe,
      Believe in something right.
      'Cause I love you for believing in me.
      I believe in you.

    chorus

    10. One More Day

      Listen to the wind
      Hear the voice inside you.
      Something in the air,
      Something you've been blind to.
      People everywhere are dying to be free.
      Time has come to live our lives in harmony.

    chorus:

    Give the children of the world one more day,
    Give the children of the world, give them one more day.

      Where do we begin ?
      When will freedom find us?
      Bring the new day in
      Free the chains that bind us.
      People reaching out for just a little more.
      Love is all we need to open up the door.

    chorus

      Now the future's up to you.
      Take a stand and see things thru
      For the children of tomorrow.
      Give the world one more day,
      Time enough to find a way
      To start over a way to go on.

      One more day
      One more day
      Give the children of the world
      One more day
      One more day
      One more day
      Give the children of tomorrow
      One more day