Moyet, Alison - God Give Me Strength Lyrics

I like Elvis' version. Straight from the source. But wow this is so powerful. So honest, raw, and real. Well done!

Elvis wrote a Burk Bacharach influence song I think....

Joseph Sullivan It's a song that was written and performed collaboratively by Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach.

Thanks Type1. Great song.

So undecided on best version...... but this is FUCKING awesome ❤️

Free pass for Alison Moyet, a long time fan of Elvis Costello. '...emotion of Vigards version'...no, God give ME strength

Lyrics
Now I have nothing, so God give me strength
'Cause I'm weak in her wake
And if I'm strong I might still break
And I don't have anything to share
That I won't throw away into the air

That song is sung out
This bell is rung out
She was the light that I'd bless
She took my last chance at happiness
So God give me strength
God give me strength

I can't hold onto her, God give me strength
When the phone doesn't ring
And I'm lost in imagining
Everything that kind of love is worth
As I tumble back down to the earth

That song is sung out
This bell is rung out
She was the light that I'd bless
She took my last chance at happiness
So God give me strength

God if she'd grant me her indulgence and decline
I might as well, wipe her from my memory
Fracture the spell, as she becomes my enemy
Maybe I was washed out like a lip-print on my shirt
See, I'm only human, I want her to hurt
I want her
I want her to hurt

Since I lost the power to pretend
That there could ever be a happy ending

That song is sung out
This bell is rung out
She was the light that I'd bless
She took my last chance at happiness
So God give me strength
God give me strength

Wipe her from my memory
I might as well
God give me strength
God give me strength
I might as well

she gives me godlike strength.

...I cant live without Lady Alison...

She has a great voice however this song has been sung far better by Trinjnte Oosterhuis who has the high level with long winded versions.......

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i love alison.great voice beautiful person ,but it doesnt have the emotion of vigards version

@Jason Sparks I agree

+Jason Sparks The original from Costello is better than both,has more power

+Jason Sparks She is European/British, - - - English may not be easy for her to sing with our dialect, so that would affect her "emotion" as you put it. She sings in other languages, too. I like her vibrato.

Amaizing!

Who does a better version, Alison Moyet or Trijntje Oosterhuis?

@Dac Tucker I agree there.  The song is obviously meant for a woman... but Costello performance, on 'a memorable night' (or whatever, precisely) with Burt Bacharach was a benchmark of sorts.

Traincha’s is by far the best

The video of the Trijntje live concert gives me chills

None of them can touch the original by Elvis

Elvis Costello by a billion light years. It's Elvis' song you numbskulls. He wrote it with Bacharach. And it first appeared on Painted From Memory - songs he wrote with Bacharach

This is my favourite version of the song. It gets more and more powerful as it goes on.

A contralto can handle these notes just fine.

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Thank you!

There are frankly so many fine versions of this song; it's odd. Check out Elvis Costello's version with BB... *but there were more than one the two did togther*. "A Perfect Night" or some such...(!) available for viewing on Y.T.

John G. Lewis Well, it IS their song that they wrote.

To be adored.......

Although I really Moyet on other songs ... I believe this song was much better served by Vigard. This song is full of angst and the heavy vibrato Moyet is putting on this takes away from the power of the lyrics and makes it sound like she's simply singing a song without feeling any of the emotion.. Both Costello and Vigard understand what the song is about and captured the emotion of the song perfectly.

I'd have to agree. This arrangement is great, but the emotion isn't deep like Vigard, Elvis, or Oosterhuis.

...she has a sultry voice...nice!

very nice Alison.... but come on people? Elvis kills this tune like no other performer.

I believe, if I were to choose a favorite version, I would go with this wonderful, passionate version by Alison Moyet. My favorite of the 'female versions', iyw. ("God Give Me Strength" is best sung, imo, by a female voice). Yet, it is undeniably true that Elvis Costello gave a remarkably powerful rendition of this song with B. B. Even haunting I might add, and a version in its strength that will match Alison's beauty.

wonderfull

Great....God given talent...awesome

Pure soul: Moyet makes this song hers.

Fantastic...

would love to hear her do Bless the Beasts and the Children. Or more karen

perfect song for her!

holy shit, i never knew about this! amazing, thanks for posting!