YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE (YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE, 1977)

"I learned something today, Pop. It was really painful, but I learned something. I learned that I have to depend on myself. I can't depend on anybody else and that's ok. You know why? Because I'm a really good person to depend on. Maybe I don't have someone that I thought I loved a lot really, but that's ok because I've got me. And I've got my work. And I've got my music. And I love that - more than anything else on this earth." - Laurie Robinson

The song's immense popularity led to the making of this motion picture drama that used 'You Light Up My Life' itself as the movie's title. Perhaps, Debby Boone's best and most recognized song ever. The song won an Oscar and Golden Globe for best original song and was nominated in the Grammys.

YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE

sung by: Debby Boone

So many nights I’d sit by my window
Waiting for someone to sing me his song
So many dreams I kept deep inside me
Alone in the dark, but now you’ve come along

And you (you) light up my life
You give me hope to carry on
You light up my days
And fill my nights with song

Rollin’ at sea, adrift on the waters
Could it be fin’lly I’m turnin’ for home
Fin’lly a chance to say, “Hey, I love you”
Never again to be all alone

’Cause you (you) light up my life

You give me hope to carry on

You light up my days

And fill my nights with song

’Cause you (you) light up my life

You give me hope to carry on

You light up my days

And fill my nights with song
It can’t be wrong when it feels so right

‘Cause you light up my life