I Don't Know How To Love Him

Yvonne Elliman

I Don't Know How To Love Him
What to do how to move him
I've been changed yes really changed
In these past few days when I've seen myself
I seem like someone else

I don't know how to take this
I don't see why he moves me
He's a man he's just a man
And I've had so many men before
In very many ways
He's just one more

Should I bring him down should I scream and shout
Should I speak of love let my feelings out
I never thought I'd come to this -- what's it all about

Don't you think it's rather funny
I should be in this position
I'm the one who's always been
So calm so cool, no lover's fool
Running every show
He scares me so

I never thought I'd come to this -- what's it all about
Yet if he said he loved me
I'd be lost I'd be frightened
I couldn't cope just couldn't cope
I'd turn my head I'd back away
I wouldn't want to know
He scares me so
I want him so
I love him so

Notes

"I Don't Know How To Love Him" was written for the rock opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. It ranked as high as #11 on the charts during 1971.

Rice and Webber discovered Yvonne Elliman, originally from Hawaii, at the "Pheasantry" folk club on Kings Road in Chelsea in 1969. They offered her the role of Mary Magdalene in their new rock opera, Jesus Christ Superstar.

Yvonne Elliman played the Magdalene role in the film version of Jesus Christ Superstar, 1973, and won a Golden Globe award for her performance.

Elliman appeared in the Broadway version of Jesus Christ Superstar where she met Bill Oakes, president of RSO Records and married him. Oakes introduced her to Eric Clapton who asked her to sing backup vocals on “I Shot the Sheriff.” She became part of Clapton’s band and stayed with him for five years.

Barry Gibb and Robin Gibb of The Bee Gees wrote a couple of songs for Elliman, “Love Me,” and “If I Can’t Have You.” She performed “If I Can’t Have You” for the movie soundtrack of Saturday Night Fever, her greatest commercial success. It was Elliman’s only #1 hit.

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