For All We Know

Album: Carpenters (1971)
Charted: 3
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  • Love, look at the two of us
    Strangers in many ways
    We've got a lifetime to share
    So much to say and as we go from day to day
    I'll feel you close to me
    But time alone will tell
    Let's take a lifetime to say
    I knew you well
    For only time will tell us so
    And love may grow for all we know

    Love, look at the two of us
    Strangers in many ways
    Let's take a lifetime to say
    I knew you well
    For only time will tell us so
    And love may grow for all we know Writer/s: Fred Karlin, James Arthur Griffin, Robert Wilson Royer
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 7

  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn March 7th 1971, "For All We Know" by the Carpenters peaked at #3 (for 2 non-consecutive weeks) on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; it had entered the chart on January 31st at position #87 and spent 13 weeks on the Top 100 (and for 7 of those 13 weeks it was on the Top 10)...
    And on February 21st it reached #1 (for 3 weeks) on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Tracks chart (they would have two other records make #1 on the 'Adult' chart; "Rain Days and Monday" for 4 weeks and "Superstar" for 2 weeks)...
    The song won the 1970 Academy Award for 'Best Original Song' from the movie 'Lovers and Other Strangers'...
    R.I.P Karen Carpenter (1950 - 1983) and Richard Carpenter will celebrate his 68th birthday this coming October 15th (2014).
  • Martin from Fresno, CaLyrics are true. You love and know some things about your spouse before you get married but there are a lot of things you do not discover until you are married.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyThis song was won for Best Song at the 1970 Academy Awards!!!
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyIn 1962 Dinah Washington recorded a great blues song called "For All We Know", it was a complete different song and it peaked at No. 88!!!
  • Camille from Toronto, OhKaren Carpenter's voice smoooooth as velvet on one of my fav Carpenter hits.
  • John from This City, AustraliaAll is good and i will never dispute how much I miss Caren She was perfect.
  • Jorge from Mexico, MexicoThis song was originally written for the movie by James Griffin shortly before he joined David Gates to form the multiawarded soft rock 70's pop group "Bread". There's a recording made by Griffin in 1969 in the double album "Bread: Retrospective".
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