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This week for Song Lyric Sunday our host Jim Adams has given us the prompt of Disgust, Embarrassment, Guilt, Regret, Remorse.

The goal is to take the prompt and profile a song that has it part of its lyrics or title.

Please consider carving out time to read the posts of other bloggers who responded to the Song Lyric Sunday challenge.

Rules for Song Lyric Sunday

Post the lyrics to the song of your choice, whether it contains the prompt words or not.  If it does not meet the criteria, then please explain why you chose this song.
• Please try to include the songwriter(s) – it’s a good idea to give credit where credit is due.  Your post can be as long or as short as you want it to be.
• Make sure you also credit the singer/band and if you desire you can provide a link to where you found the lyrics.
• Link to the YouTube video or pull it into your post so others can listen to the song.
• Ping back to this post or place your link in the comments section below.
• Read at least one other person’s blog, so we can all share new and fantastic music and create amazing new blogging friends in the process.
• Feel free to suggest future prompts.
• Have fun and enjoy the music.

Guilty

My song for today is “Guilty“.

Since 1980 Randy Newman has pretty much written “spec songs“. You give him a movie or TV show and he writes a song about it. Yet prior to that he wrote songs for himself and songs that often got covered by others. That was the case in 1973 when he wrote “Guilty”, and it got recorded by Bonnie Raitt. This song was part of her third studio album called “Taking My Time“.

Raitt hired Lowell George as the producer, but she became frustrated and replaced him with John Hall. George did bring members of Little Feat to the album. Playing on this track are Bill Payne on keyboards and Paul Barrere on guitar and background vocals.

Lyrics

Video

Two video’s the first one by Randy Newman and the second by Bonnie Raitt

Bonnie’s version

Next week the prompt is Excitement, Pleasure, Sentiment, Spirit.