Can’t Help Falling In Love With You [cover]

I rarely write love songs, but I do love to sing them

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Hi friend!

I don’t write love songs. Not out of principle, but because the times I have tried the lyrics that I create just make me cringe. Perhaps because I haven’t had the greatest love experiences. I do write about relationships — and I add relationship angles to many of my songs without making them directly about relationships, but I find this a different thing to write about than love.

So instead I look for other people’s love songs to cover. And one of my all time favourites is Can’t Help Falling In Love.

It is based on a French song from 1784, and then written by Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore, and George David Weiss, and released and made famous by Elvis Presley in 1961.

I like it because of its simplicity. It says a lot in very few words.

As someone now living with chronic illness, the words have taken on a different meaning than when I was younger.

“Take my hand” — speaks to me about reaching out for support, asking the other person to truly be there, and “Take my whole life too” speaks to me about asking the other person to accept every single part of who I am, and my life living in a broken body.

I managed to record this cover last year in February. I had an exceptionally good week and this was one of the things that came out of that week. I didn’t have the energy (or the thought) to record it on video, so this time you get an audio. As always, this is a raw, unedited cover.

Here is my cover of Can’t Help Falling In Love:

Hope you like it!

Tell me…

Do you have a favourite love song?

Have you been lucky in love?

What is the most important thing for you when it comes to love?

I’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments below.