Good Morning

Album: Evolver (2008)
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Songfacts®:

  • Legend told Billboard magazine that this song, where he doesn't want a one night stand to end, is his favorite cut from Evolver.
  • Legend told Billboard: "My songs are always about love and devotion. 'Good Morning' is about sex more explicitly than I've written about before. Sooner or later I had to go R. Kelly on my fans... without going all the way."
  • This track features twice on Evolver. The album opens with an instrumental version and the full cut closes the set.
  • John Legend revealed on a Reddit AMA that this was the first song he ever wrote for his model wife Chrissy Teigen. "Morning sex inspired it," he said.

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  • Nikki from Chicago, IlA clip of this song is at the end of the "Green Light" music video.
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