No idea, your guess is as god as mine. But if any do we would probably be very surprised if we ever got to come back to find out which they were.
These thoughts passed through my mind because twice this week, for the first time in I do not know how long, I happened to hear Jim Reeves singing Leon Payne’s I Love You Because – once on Harry Belafonte radio on Last FM, then on Terry Wogan’s farewell Radio2 Breakfast show.
I would not want to suggest that it deserves to last for its literary merits; in any case, I cannot hear it just as a poem, divorced from the music, & certainly not from intense personal memory of how it was Our Song in 1964.
I love you because you understand dear
Every single thing I try to do
You’re always there to lend a helping hand dear
I love you most of all because you’re you
No matter what the world may say about me
I know your love will always see me through
I love you for the way you never doubt me,
But most of all I love you cause you're you
I love you because my heart is lighter
Every time I’m walking by your side
I love you because the future’s brighter
The door to happiness you opened wide
No matter what the world may say about me
I know your love will always see me through
I love you for a hundred thousand reasons
But most of all I love you ‘cause you’re you
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