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Carroll Thompson

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One of the defining voices of lovers rock. Her album Hopelessly in Love, released in 1981 on her own terms rather than through a major, sold heavily to an audience the British record industry had not noticed existed, and it remains the record the style is measured by. She is a songwriter and arranger as well as a singer, which was rarer still for a young Black woman in British music at the time.

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Carroll Thompson - Hopelessly In Love (Official Lyrics Video)

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  1. 0:05[Music]
  2. 0:11[Music] I'm in
  3. 0:14love oh
  4. 0:17love oh baby I'm in
  5. 0:20baby I'm in
  6. 0:20baby I'm in [Music]
  7. 0:22[Music]
  8. 0:22[Music] love I'm hopelessly in love
  9. 0:30[Music]
  10. 0:32[Music] hly in
  11. 0:34hly in
  12. 0:34hly in [Music]
  13. 0:36[Music]
  14. 0:36[Music] love oh God I'm hopelessly in
  15. 0:43love I said I would never fall in
  16. 0:49love I said I would never fall in love never fall in
  17. 0:51love never fall in
  18. 0:51love never fall in love
  19. 0:56again but now I need your love each
  20. 1:03day just like the flow need the
  21. 1:10rain please tell me everything will be
  22. 1:16rain please tell me everything will be okay cuz I am hopelessly in
  23. 1:21okay cuz I am hopelessly in
  24. 1:21okay cuz I am hopelessly in [Music]
  25. 1:24[Music]
  26. 1:24[Music] love I am hopelessly in love
  27. 1:33strange so strange that I am feel this
  28. 1:38strange so strange that I am feel this way
  29. 1:40way
  30. 1:40way again I said that love was just
  31. 1:46again I said that love was just
  32. 1:46again I said that love was just who now I need
  33. 1:50who now I need
  34. 1:50who now I need your
  35. 1:53your I'm just like a baby when I'm in
  36. 1:58your I'm just like a baby when I'm in your arm
  37. 2:00your arm
  38. 2:00your arm cuz I am hopelessly in
  39. 2:06love oh God I'm hopelessly in
  40. 2:10love oh God I'm hopelessly in [Music]
  41. 2:13[Music]
  42. 2:13[Music] love I said I would never fall in
  43. 2:19love I said I would never fall in
  44. 2:19love I said I would never fall in love never fall in
  45. 2:22love never fall in
  46. 2:22love never fall in love
  47. 2:26again but now I need Your Love
  48. 2:32again but now I need Your Love [Music]
  49. 2:33[Music]
  50. 2:33[Music] day just like the flowers me the
  51. 2:40rain please tell me everything will be
  52. 2:46rain please tell me everything will be okay cuz I am hopelessly in
  53. 2:52okay cuz I am hopelessly in
  54. 2:52okay cuz I am hopelessly in [Applause]
  55. 2:52[Applause]
  56. 2:52[Applause] [Music]
  57. 2:54[Music]
  58. 2:54[Music] love I am
  59. 2:57love I am
  60. 2:57love I am hopelessly in love
  61. 3:01hopelessly in love
  62. 3:01hopelessly in love I'm
  63. 3:02I'm
  64. 3:02I'm hopelessly in
  65. 3:05hopelessly in
  66. 3:05hopelessly in love and it's
  67. 3:06love and it's
  68. 3:06love and it's [Music]
  69. 3:08[Music]
  70. 3:09[Music] true I need
  71. 3:12your Hess in love
  72. 3:17your Hess in love baby
  73. 3:20iness in
  74. 3:22iness in [Applause]
  75. 3:23[Applause]
  76. 3:23[Applause] love in
  77. 3:25love in
  78. 3:25love in [Applause]
  79. 3:27[Applause]
  80. 3:27[Applause] love in love
  81. 3:30love in love
  82. 3:30love in love hopelessly in
  83. 3:32hopelessly in
  84. 3:32hopelessly in love hopelessly in love oh baby that you
  85. 3:40ESS in love
  86. 3:45[Music]
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