Born To Lose

Written by Sergio Bardotti / Dario Baldan Bembo. English lyrics penned by Norman Newell.

Released on the 1976 album Love, Life And Feelings and on a single with "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" on the A-side. Available on CD on the collection Four Decades Of Song.

Originally this was an Italian song called "Aria" and performed by Dario Baldan Bembo. Years later, 1976 Mr. Acker Bilk recorded "Aria" instrumentally with his clarinet, which became a hit - in Britain it reached number five in the charts. Mr. Acker Bilk (born: Bernard Stanley Bilk) is a well known musician, remember for example his 1962 hit "Stranger on the Shore".

Norman Newell then penned English lyrics to the song for Shirley Bassey and the title became "Born To Lose". Shirley Bassey has performed this song on some live appearances and TV shows - a live recording is on Live In Japan '77. In 2000 Shirley Bassey sung it again on some concerts of her Millennium Tour, and also recently on the Stately Homes Tour 2001.

The Italian singer Ornella Vanoni has later also sung "Aria" in English, but with different English lyrics penned by Ben Raleigh.
 

Lyrics:

Born to lose

Born to lose the game

Born to cry

When I hear you're near

Born to smile

Through a mist of tears

Born to live

Lost in lonely years

Born to lose

Every game I play

You must go

There's no other way

Touch my life

With your love once more

It must last

Till forever more

Take my love

Take my life, my soul

Take my dreams

Take my word, my own

Would I change

Could I only choose

No not me

I was born to lose

Take my love

Take my life, my soul

Take my dreams

Take my word, my own

Would I change

Could I only choose

No not me

I was born to lose

Take my love

Take my life, my soul

Take my dreams

Take my word, my own

Would I change

Could I only choose

No not me

I was born to lose

Take my love

Take my life, my soul

Take my dreams

Take my word, my own

(transcribed by Roman <scribbler@gmx.net>)