Houston began singing at New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey, as a child and became a background vocalist while in high school. She was one of the first black women to appear on the cover of Seventeen after becoming a teen model in 1981. With the guidance of Arista Records chairman Clive Davis, Houston signed to the label at age 19. Her first two studio albums, Whitney Houston (1985) and Whitney (1987), both peaked at number one on the Billboard 200 and are among the best-selling albums of all time. Hit singles from the albums, including "How Will I Know", "Greatest Love of All" and "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)", established her as a catalyst in the acceptance of black female artists on MTV. Her third studio album, I'm Your Baby Tonight (1990), yielded two Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles, the title track and "All the Man That I Need". Houston's rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Super Bowl XXV in 1991 received widespread media coverage.
Houston made her acting debut with the romantic thriller film The Bodyguard (1992), which despite its mixed reviews became the tenth highest-grossing film to that date. Its soundtrack won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year and remains the bestselling soundtrack album of all time. It generated multiple hit singles, including "I Have Nothing", "I'm Every Woman" and "I Will Always Love You"; the latter won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year, spent a then-record 14 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 and became the best-selling single by a woman in music history. Subsequently, she went on to star in the films Waiting to Exhale (1995) and The Preacher's Wife (1996), and she recorded their respective soundtracks; the former scored her last Billboard Hot 100 number-one single, "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)", while the latter, produced by Houston herself, became the bestselling gospel album of all time. As a film producer, she produced multicultural movies and series such as Cinderella (1997) and The Princess Diaries and The Cheetah Girls.
Houston's first studio album in eight years, My Love Is Your Love (1998), spawned several hit singles, including the title track, "Heartbreak Hotel", "It's Not Right but It's Okay" and the Academy Award-winning Mariah Carey duet "When You Believe". Following the success, she renewed her contract with Arista for $100 million in 2001, one of the biggest recording deals of all time. However, her personal problems began to overshadow her career. Her 2002 studio album, Just Whitney, received mixed reviews, while her drug use and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown received widespread media coverage. After divorcing Brown, Houston returned to the top of the Billboard 200 chart with her final studio album, I Look to You (2009). In February 2012, Houston accidentally drowned in a bathtub at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills, with heart disease and cocaine use as contributing factors. News of her death coincided with the 2012 Grammy Awards, which took place the day following her death, and was covered internationally. Her life and career were dramatized in the 2022 biopic I Wanna Dance with Somebody. Her assets amounted to $250 million, earned over a 25-year career.
Full Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitney_Houston
Discography
Whitney Houston (1985)
Whitney (1987)
I'm Your Baby Tonight (1990)
My Love Is Your Love (1998)
Just Whitney (2002)
One Wish: The Holiday Album (2003)
I Look to You (2009)
Until You Come Back
Whitney Houston Lyrics
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You made me feel like no one had before
Boy, you made me love you
Then you walked out the door
See, I will not rest until you say I'm forever yours
[Chorus]
And boy I won't stop at nothing
And you've gotta feel something
I know I will not love again
Until you come back
Come back to my arms
Till you come back to me baby
Until you come back
I don't care how long baby
It's not important to me
Don't care how far
Love's never too far for me, oh no it ain't
I just might be crazy, yes I am
When it comes to my heart
But I can not rest until
The day we're no longer apart
[Chorus]
To me
Nobody plays with my heart
You can walk away from it all, baby
You can run but your heart can not hide
'Cause it knows you belong in my arms
[Chorus]
To me
Oh yeah
Till you come back to me baby
Come on home, come home
To me
The lyrics to Whitney Houston's song 'Until You Come Back' are about the aftermath of a broken relationship. It begins with the singer stating that she has lost her heart a long time ago, implying that she has been heartbroken for a while. She makes it clear that the person who broke her heart is someone who made her feel something she had never felt before. She mentions that the person she is addressing in the song had made her fall in love with them and then walked out the door, leaving her heartbroken.
The chorus is a plea to this person to come back to her. She claims that she won't stop at anything to have them back in her life. She knows that she won't love again until this person returns to her. She is depicted as going crazy with the absence of this person from her life. She expresses that she does not care how long it takes for them to come back or how far they go from her. She stresses that love cannot be too far for her.
The song ultimately conveys the singer's deep longing for the person who broke her heart to come back to her. She is shown to be unwavering in her affection for the person and is ready to do whatever it takes to have them back in her life.
Line by Line Meaning
I lost my heart a long time ago
I fell in love with you a long time ago
You made me feel like no one had before
You made me feel loved and special like nobody else had done previously
Boy, you made me love you
You stole my heart and made me fall in love with you
Then you walked out the door
You left me and broke my heart by walking away from me
See, I will not rest until you say I'm forever yours
I won't stop until you come back and tell me that you'll be with me forever
[Chorus] And boy I won't stop at nothing
I'll do anything to have you back
I won't give you up
I won't let you go and let our love die
And you've gotta feel something
I hope you still have feelings for me
I know I will not love again
I can't imagine loving anyone else again
Until you come back
I need you to come back to me
Come back to my arms
Return to my embrace and love
Till you come back to me baby
I'll wait for you no matter how long it takes
I don't care how long baby
I'm willing to wait as long as it takes
It's not important to me
Time is not important to me when it comes to my love for you
Don't care how far
Distance doesn't matter to me
Love's never too far for me, oh no it ain't
My love for you can overcome any distance
I just might be crazy, yes I am
People may think I'm crazy for waiting for you, but I don't care
When it comes to my heart
My heart is precious to me and I'll do anything to protect it
But I can not rest until
I'll continue to wait for you until
The day we're no longer apart
The day when we're together again
To me
For me
Nobody plays with my heart
I won't tolerate anyone playing games with my heart or my love
You can walk away from it all, baby
You can choose to leave everything behind, but my love for you won't fade away
You can run but your heart can not hide
You may try to hide your true feelings, but your heart knows that you belong with me
'Cause it knows you belong in my arms
Your heart knows that you belong with me and wants us to be together
[Chorus]
Repeating the chorus
Oh yeah
Oh yes
Till you come back to me baby
I'll wait for you no matter how long it takes
Come on home, come home
Come back to me, return to our love
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: KENNETH EDMONDS, DARYL SIMMONS
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