More Than I Can Say Lyrics

Sayer is a British singer-songwriter who enjoyed the majority of his chart success in the 1970s and early 1980s. He had two singles reach #1 in the U.S., "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" and "When I Need You", both in 1977.[3] He nearly had a third song achieve this feat, as his cover version of "More Than I Can Say" spent five weeks at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in December 1980 and January 1981.[4] Sayer's version of the song was certified a Gold Record by the RIAA.[4] It also spent three weeks at #1 on the Billboard adult contemporary chart.[1] In the U.K., the song peaked at #2 on the UK Singles Chart,[5] while it spent two weeks atop the Kent Music Report in Australia. Sayer has stated that while looking for an "oldie" to record for his album Living in a Fantasy, he saw a TV commercial for a greatest hits collection by Vee and chose the song on the spot: "We went into a record store that afternoon, bought the record and had the song recorded that night."[1] [edit] Similarities to "Every Breath You Take" The song's chorus bears a striking resemblance to the chorus of The Police's 1983 hit "Every Breath You Take". Sting has said that the music of the song is itself an amalgamation of several pieces of music which, along with the release of the Sayer version just a few years prior, indicate that "Every Breath You Take" owes much to the song.[citation needed] This idea seems to be based on the progression of two chords, in which case any number of songs can be accused of the same thing.