She can bring him such misery / If she's playing him for a fool / He's the very last one to know / Loving eyes can never see

81 Johnny Rivers - When A Man Loves A Woman
John Lee Hooker - 1967

Cuando un hombre ama a una mujer fue interpretada por Percy Sledge quien la popularizo, 24 años después volvió a ser numero uno con Michael Bolton. Otros que la cantaron fueron Kenny Rogers, Bette Midler, Steve Winwood, Jerry Lee Lewis entre otros. Pero la versión que recreara Rivers es una de las más llenas de sentimiento.




Uno de los problemas del amor, no es quien ama más, sino que se ama de forma diferente, (por ahí) para el otro no alcanza el amor que se entrega o por lo contrario, resulta asfixiante. El amor nos vuelve ciego y hacemos cosas que jamas haríamos y cuando ya no está la persona a la que dábamos nuestro amor duele tanto que pareciera que el corazón quisiera salir del pecho e ir tras ella.

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Versión Percy Sledge - When a Man Loves a Woman (1966)  
Versión Michael Bolton - When a Man Loves a Woman (1991)   


When a man loves a woman
Can't keep his mind on nothin' else
He'd trade the world
For a good thing he's found
If she is bad, he can't see it
She can do no wrong
He turns his back on his best friend If he puts her down
Yes, When a man loves a woman
Spend his very last dime
Trying to hold on to what he needs
He'd give up all of his comforts
And sleep out in the rain
If she said that's the way
It's gotta be
Well this man loves the woman
(yes I do)
I give everything I have
Trying to hold on to her kind of love
Why if can she treat me bad?
When a man loves a woman
I've talked about it down deep in the soul
She can bring him such misery
If she's playing him for a fool
He's the very last one to know
Loving eyes can never see
Yes when a man loves a woman
Oh, he spends his very last dime
Trying to hold on to what he needs
He'd give up all of his comforts
Oh, that fool sleeps out in the rain
If she said that's the way
It's gotta be
I need it down deep in the soul

Compositores: Calvin Houston Lewis / Andrew James Wright