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Kiss From A Roseby SealThere used to be a graying tower alone on the seaYou became the light on the dark side of meLove remained a drug that's the high and n

Songfacts®:One of the more mysterious songs ever written, there has been much speculation as to the meaning of "Kiss From A Rose" - many think it has something to do with drugs, while others hear it as an expression of love or a journey to the afterlife. Seal has never explained what the song is about, offering only that there was "some kind of relationship that inspired the lyrics." Seal bucked convention by not including printed lyrics with the album, something he did because he didn't want to wash away anyone's interpretation. He also says that his songs often mean more than one thing, so attributing a meaning would be too simplistic. In lieu of lyrics, Seal wrote a screed on the subject that went with the album. "I think it's the general vibe of what I'm saying that is important and not the exact literal translation," he wrote. "The song is always larger in the listener's mind because with it they attach imagery which is relative to their own personal experience. So it is your perception of what I'm saying rather than what I actually way that is the key."Seal wrote this song sometime around 1988 when he was living in a squat in Kensal Green, London. He says it was a liberating time, as it was before he had a record deal and there was no pressure on him. He didn't know how to play any instruments, so he sang the instrumental parts onto a 4-track tape recorder as an experiment. He tossed the tape aside and thought nothing of it; when he recorded his 1991 debut album, he didn't even consider it. The song was revived two years later when Seal played if for his best friend, who told Seal's producer, Trevor Horn, about it. Horn made Seal play it for him, and he liked what he heard. They recorded the song for his second album (Seal, 1994), but they still nearly tanked it. "I thought it was too flowery and that it didn't fit," Seal told The Guardian. They were going to pull it from the tracklist, but reconsidered after their friend Lynne Franks heard the album-in-progress and said she liked "that song that was something about a rose."The song was released as a single in the UK, where it went to #20 in July 1994. In America, the song didn't get noticed until it played under the end credits of the movie Batman Forever and was included on the soundtrack. The film was released in May 1995, nearly a year after Seal's album was issued. The movie appearance sparked demand for the song in the US; it was issued as a single there in June 1995 and climbed to #1 in Forever was distributed by Warner Bros., the same conglomerate that owned Seal's US label, Sire Records. The song was submitted for a love scene featuring Nicole Kidman's Dr. Chase Meridian character and Val Kilmer's Batman, but the film's director, Joel Schumacher, decided it was a better fit under the end you hear the lyric as "kiss from a rose on a grave?" If so, you're not the only one, but it's really "kiss from a rose on a gray." David Sancious, who played keyboards on Seal's 1998 album Human Being and joined him on the subsequent tour, found out from the source. "We were having lunch somewhere one day and he explained it to me," Sancious told Songfacts. "It was a poetic thing, just a little taste of poetry that happened to sound like something else."With its curious waltz time, lavish harmonies and epic sound proportions, "Kiss From A Rose" has a very different sound and stood out on the radio, where many stations were willing to play it. In the US, it was a #1 hit on the Adult Contemporary charts for 12 weeks. This won Grammy Awards in 1996 for Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance. It wasn't eligible for an Oscar because the song appeared on Seal's album before it was used in the contributed the song "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" to Batman Forever, which was released as the first single and played before "Kiss From A Rose" in the song was a worldwide hit, scoring in the Top 10 in Australia, Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands, France, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the US, and the UK. In 1994, there was no getting away from it on the radio."Kiss From A Rose" is one of the few hit songs you'll hear with an oboe solo (that's fun to say!). The orchestra was arranged by Graeme Perkins and also features a only is this song part of the Batman Forever soundtrack, but the second version of the video contains a great deal of film footage, and has Seal on a rooftop stage set next to a bat-signal. This ages the song badly, as - brace yourself for an onslaught from the world's most hideous fandom - director Joel Schumacher was later credited with ruining the Batman franchise "forever," resulting in the reboot with the Nolan is Seal's actual birth name? Take a deep breath and say "Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel." Yes, all six of them. Seal is of Nigerian and Brazilian heritage, which might explain some of his unique international appeal."Kiss From A Rose" is Seal's only #1 hit on the Billboard charts, but he charted five times in the Billboard Top 40 from 1991 ("Crazy") to 1996 (a cover of Steve Miller Band's "Fly Like An Eagle"). This song also made it to #1 on the Billboard Mainstream, Hot Adult and Adult Contemporary appeared in a commercial for the NFL that aired during the 2016 Super Bowl where he and groups of children sang a reworked version of this song to drive home the message of the spot: that cities that win a Super Bowl see an increase in births nine months later. In the commercial, these "Super Bowl Babies" sing stilted lyrics like "What makes this Super Bowl so super, a game we adore?" and "Mom and dad looked at each other, one thing led to another that night," while Seal appears near the Golden Gate was featured in an episode of the TV miniseries The people v. Simpson: American Crime Story. It is used in a scene where prosecutor Marcia Clark has a breakdown, which would have taken place around March 1995, close to when the song was released as a single in Helms sings along to this in the 2015 movie Vacation in a scene where the song comes on the radio and he tries, unsuccessfully, to get his family to sing along. Later, he has more luck, getting everyone to join in when he sings it on a roller coaster."Kiss From A Rose" is featured in the 2009 episode of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, "The Gang Wrestles for the Troops". Having met a deployed soldier online (and off-screen) under the name Desert Rose, Dee Reynolds prepares to serenade Ben the Soldier when he arrives by bus in Philly. She bails on the scene after seeing him in a wheelchair and thinking he's disabled, leaving Frank to hit the boom box and play "Kiss From A Rose" while holding a salute for an awkwardly long song appears again later in the episode when Dee steps into a wrestling ring to serenade Ben, who's sitting in the bleachers. She's just breaking into the chorus when priest-turned-criminal-vagrant Rickety Cricket smashes her in the face with a fold-up chair.

Seal. Track 6 on Seal (1994) Produced by. Richard Lowe & Trevor Horn. “Kiss from a Rose” is a song from Seal’s second eponymous album, Seal II. The song was first released as a single in

Seal Year: 1995 4:49 41 Views Playlists: #1 The easy, fast & fun way to learn how to sing: There used to be a greying tower alone on the sea You became the light on the dark side of me Love remained a drug that's the high and not the pill But did you know that when it snows My eyes become large and the light that you shine can be seen? Baby, I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the grey Ooh, the more I get of you, the stranger it feels, yeah Now that your rose is in bloom A light hits the gloom on the grey There is so much a man can tell you, so much he can say You remain my power, my pleasure, my pain Baby, to me, you're like a growing addiction that I can't deny Won't you tell me, is that healthy, baby? But did you know that when it snows My eyes become large and the light that you shine can be seen? Baby, I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the grey Ooh, the more I get of you, the stranger it feels, yeah Now that your rose is in bloom A light hits the gloom on the grey I've been kissed by a rose on the grey I've been kissed by a rose on the grey And if I should fall, will it all go away? I've been kissed by a rose on the grey There is so much a man can tell you, so much he can say You remain my power, my pleasure, my pain To me, you're like a growing, addiction that I can't deny Won't you tell me, is that healthy, baby? But did you know that when it snows My eyes become large, and the light that you shine can be seen? Baby, I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the grey Ooh, the more I get of you, the stranger it feels, yeah Now that your rose is in bloom A light hits the gloom on the grey Yes I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the grey Ooh, the more I get of you stranger it feels, yeah And now that your rose is in bloom A light hits the gloom on the grey Now that your rose is in bloom A light hits the gloom on the grey The easy, fast & fun way to learn how to sing: Written by: Henry Olusegun Adeola Samuel Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind Citation Use the citation below to add these lyrics to your bibliography: Missing lyrics by Seal? Know any other songs by Seal? Don't keep it to yourself! Watch the song video Kiss from a Rose Browse Quiz Are you a music master? » What is the theme song to the movie: Staying Alive? A. Survivor - Eye of the Tiger B. Ray Parker Jr. - Ghostbusters C. Frank Stallone - Far from Over D. Eric Carmen - Hungry Eyes Don't miss Seal's Upcoming Events » Sat • Aug 27 • 12:30 PM3rd and Lindsley, Nashville, TNThu • Sep 08 • 7:00 PMThe Rose Music Center at The Heights, Huber Heights, OHFri • Oct 14 • 8:00 PMThe Cabot, Beverly, MAFri • Dec 23 • 7:30 PMKendal Brewery Arts Centre, Cumbria

Those who are familiar with “Kiss from a Rose” know that the lyrics are highly-symbolic and not the easiest to decipher. As such, widely-accepted interpretations of this song vary and are for the most part unrelated. This is partially because the writer and songwriter himself, Seal, has refused to state outright the inspiration behind this song. Instead of explaining the true meaning of the lyrics, he has constantly ambiguously stated that it is based on “some kind of relationship”. In fact for years he forsook “Kiss from a Rose” altogether. This may be due the fact that he wrote it during the pre-fame era of his life, when he was living in London under apparently economically-challenging conditions. As such, he encourages listeners to derive their own meaning from the track. In other words, he believes that what the listener perceives through the lyrics is more-important than what he was actually referring to when he wrote them. What do we think about this song? Judging from the profoundness of the song’s lyrics, we have no doubts that the song was indeed inspired by a relationship Seal was in. Whoever he was in this relationship with must have meant so much to him at the time he wrote this song. Why do we say so? The sheer depth and overpowering nature of the lyrics show how special this person was to him. And what really does Seal mean when he says the following: “I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the gray”? We all know that roses naturally grow and blossom in warm climates. It will therefore be a very rare sight to see one exist on the gray (winter/snow/frozen wilderness). Seal is apparently comparing the rarity of a blossoming rose in the gray and it’s ability to kiss to his lover. Such is how extraordinarily special she is to him. “Kiss from a Rose” Seal authored this track all by himself. He penned this tune in 1987, many years before it finally came out in July producers Richard Lowe and Trevor Horn were responsible for the production of “Kiss from a Rose”. This classic appeared on Seal’s 2nd studio album Seal (Seal II). Furthermore, it also appeared on his 2004 compilation album entitled Best to Seal, “some kind of relationship” was the inspiration behind the mysterious lyrics on this song.“Kiss from a Rose” has been used in multiple movies and TV series. Most notably, it featured on the end credits of the 1995 movie Batman Forever. It also appeared on the 2015 movie track’s original music clip was jointly directed by William Levin and Matthew Rolston. Joel Schumacher was in charge of directing the later version of this song’s the 1995 MTV Movie Awards, “Kiss from a Rose” was judged the Best Video from a singer Chris Brown sampled parts of this track on his 2017 song named, “Nowhere”. The classic was also sampled in “Auditions” by Sing cast, in Australia and in the UK, the single earned a Platinum certification. It got Gold certification in the USA, Norway and in France. Seal performing “Kiss from a Rose” live at the studios of SiriusXM in 2017. How did “Kiss from a Rose” perform on the charts? The single was a global chart-topper. In 1995, it made it to on the Australian charts, Billboard Hot 100, Adult Contemporary, Adult Top 40, and Mainstream Top 40 charts. It was No. 2 in Canada and No. 4 on the UK Singles chart. Which artists have covered “Kiss from a Rose”? The song has been a subject of several cover versions performed by numerous singers, such as: John Williams (1996), 12 Stones (2012), April Divine (2010), Katherine Jenkins (2007), and No Fair Fights (2014). Did “Kiss from a Rose” win a Grammy Award? In 1996, “Kiss from a Rose” received earned Seal 3 Grammy Awards. He won in the following categories: Song of the YearBest Male Pop Vocal PerformanceRecord of the Year

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