Reaching Out

Album: The Bee Gees, Spirits Having Flown (1979), track 4
Instruments: Synthesizer, Guitars, Vocal, Drum, Stereo, Studio Effects
Style: "Pop", not so Disco(?), methodical
Features: Polyphonic Harmony, Falsetto
Duration: 4:07
Modern Discovery: October 2004

[cue synthesizer]
[Barry vocal] Watching every day go by.. [cue acoustic guitar]
living in a foolish game
just the way I feel today
Living my life without you. [in harmony][ans guitar]

Never hear a single word
living in a lullaby
prayin' every tear I cry
Living my life without you.

Watching every day go by.. Living my life without you.
The acoustic guitar helps make the song feel like its flowing through.
Then the song kicks into high gear:

And everywhere you go..! ..I'll fly
(Love you with a special feeling)
Darling till.. the day I die
(Baby never stop believing)
[I'll be Reaching Out,] aaaahh
[I'll be Reaching Out, aaaahhha-aaaahh]
[Reaching Out]

This is the kicker, my favorite part of this song. "And everywhere you go.. love you with a special feeling." The joke is, I'll show you *my* special feeling.. haha. There's also the double meaning of "Reaching Out" since I'm on an "outreach" committee ;).

There's a woman going through me
[I'll be Reaching Out]
Got a chance for you to me
(aaaahhha-aaaahh)
Everything is lonely and I need you
Living my life forever, forever, -er

Everything is lonely and I need you
"classic"

Watching every day go by
living on the one I love
what I got is not enough
Living my life without you...

The "What I got is not enough" line always jabs you. Do you really want to think like that?

I.. believe in yesterday
(Yesterday was once tomorrow)
With love, with love wide open
(Baby you're the light I follow)
I'll be I'll be
[I'll be Reaching Out,] aaaahh
[I'll be Reaching Out, aaaahhha-aaaahh]
[Reaching Out]
There's a woman going through me
[I'll be Reaching Out]
Got a chance for you to me
(aaaahhha-aaaahh)
Everything is lonely and I need you
Living my life forever,
[I'll be Reaching Out,] aaaahh
[I'll be Reaching Out, aaaahhha-aaaahh]
[Reaching Out]
aaaaaaaah! [I'll be Reaching Out,] aaaahh
[I'll be Reaching Out, aaaahhha-aaaahh]
Living my life forever, Reaching out (aaaaaaah)
[I'll be Reaching Out, aaaahhha-aaaahh]
[Reaching Out]
[I'll be Reaching Out, aaaahhha-aaaahh]
[Reaching Out]
ohhhh! [Reaching Out]

That's my best attempt to put the Bee Gees harmony on paper, lol. It looks messy. This song really hits the spot. It was a toss up between this song and "Emotion" but I went with the less popular one. We'll probably do Emotion next time.

Baby, never stop believing.