Underneath The Stars

Album: Daydream (1995)
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  • One summer night
    We ran away for a while
    Laughing we hurried beneath the sky
    To an obscure place to hide
    That no one could find

    And we drifted to another state of mind
    And imagined I was yours and you were mine
    As we lay upon the grass
    There in the dark
    Underneath the stars
    (Young love, young love, young love)
    Underneath the stars
    (Young love, young love, young love)
    Ohh baby, yeah

    Weak in the knees
    Wrapped in the warm gentle breeze
    So shy a bundle of butterflies (so shy)
    Flush with heat of desire
    On a natural high

    As we drifted to another place in time
    And the feeling was so heady and sublime
    As I lost my heart to you there in the dark
    Underneath the stars (young love, young love, young love)
    (Young love, young love, young love)

    Oh, beautiful and bitter sweetly
    You were fading into me
    And I was gently fading into you
    But the time went sailing by (ooh yeah)
    Reluctantly we said good bye (yeah)
    And left our secret place so far behind
    And I lay in bed all night and I was
    Drifting, drifting, drifting, drifting

    Drifted to another state of mind
    And imagined I was yours and you were mine (ooh and I was yours)
    You were my own, my own baby
    As we lay upon the grass (as we lay)
    There in the dark
    Laid underneath the stars
    (Young love, young love, young love)
    (Young love, young love, young love) Baby, yeah

    Underneath the stars
    (Young love, young love, young love)
    Underneath the stars
    (Young love, young love, young love)
    Underneath the stars
    (Young love, young love, young love)
    Underneath the stars (I was drifting, drifting, drifting)
    (Young love, young love, young love)
    Underneath the stars
    (Young love, young love, young love)

    Underneath the stars
    (Young love, young love, young love) Baby, baby, yeah, yeah Writer/s: Mariah Carey, Walter Afansieff
    Publisher: Sentric Music, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Comments: 2

  • Sam from Irvine, CaShe is referencing this song in For the Record. She actually references 7 songs:
    Don't forget out us - 'They can't compete with MC'
    Always be my baby - 'You'll always be a part of me
    No matter what you do'
    My all - Can't nobody say I didn't give my all to you
    Underneath the stars - 'I told you underneath the stars'
    We belong together - 'That you belong to me'
    Can't Let go - 'We just can't let go of us'
    Honey - 'Honey' last word of the bridge.
  • Megan from Wilmington, DeDoes anyone know who Mariah may have wrote this song about? She ahs a new song on her new album E=MC2 called "FOR THE RECORD" and there is a quote in it: "And for the record, I told you underneath the stars, that you belong to me" I believe she may be referring to this song.....just curious.
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