Shirley Bassey - Almost There (w/ Tom Baxter) (2009 Live at Electric Proms)

2009 (Tom Baxter wrote this song for veteran songstress, Dame Shirley Bassey, which she recorded and released on her 2009 CD. This clip is a live version performed on her Concert TV Special). Dame Shirley started show business as a chorus/dance girl back in 1953. Shortly thereafter when the managers/producers heard her sing she received a recording contract and gave up her dancing shows permanently. In 2013, Shirley is celebrating her Diamond Anniversary in show business (60 Years). And, as one can see, her powerful vocal abilities are still going strong. I hope that younger generation listeners will have a listen to this great 'VOICE' of the prior generation, and appreciate it.

This song, Almost There, is a track from Dame Shirley Bassey's 2009 CD titled, 'The Performance'

LYRICS:
If you're listening now
I hope that I make more sense
'Cause now I'm not quite so young
I'm not quite so foolish in my defense

Pictures that I hid in my room
They now come out
And those places we used to go
I talk about

And now I'm not the girl of your dreams
Well, I took you almost there
I'll be damned if I care
Now if I'm not girl, we were almost there

Looks like I've lost you somewhere
And now I'm not the girl in your life

Well okay, maybe it hurts
And maybe I still feel my lips brush your face
What the hell, I'm not fool enough
To claim that I'm over you as yet

No, oh no
And though I've still got some way to go
Well, lately I'm almost there
I'll be damned if I care
Now that I'm not your girl, we were almost there

Watch me someday
Yeah, somehow I will make it somewhere
Going higher, I'll rise so much higher
And I'll hold my head higher

Almost there, that perfume that you wear
Now that I'm not your girl, we were almost there
Almost there!