Chords for k.d.lang Interview - Barbara Walters 1993

because of her refusal to compromise and mostly because of her sound.
Her hope is that all the hoopla surrounding her personal life is drowned [A] out by her voice.
Her name, K [D].D. Lang.
I was alright for a while.
_ I could smile for a while.
When K.D. Lang took the stage to sing Roy Orbison's classic Cryin'
at Radio City Music Hall in New York, she'd come a long way from the [G] prairies of Western Canada
where [Gm] she was born, Catherine Dawn.
She had appeared [D] on the country music scene five years before,
but the establishment in Nashville [B] didn't know what to make of this eccentric Canadian.
She flat out rejected the lavish hairdos and [D] sequined gowns
that seemed a requirement for country stardom.
She made no bones about her preference for women.
They labeled her country punk.
[Bm] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [D] _
_ [A] _ _ [D] _ _ [G] A [D] writer once commented,
if Elvis and [G] Barbra Streisand had a child, it would be K.D. Lang.
_ [D] _
_ _ What if I get to like this [Ab] my whole life?
You know what?
You're going to be a sinner for the rest of your life if you like pool.
We met recently in New York for a lesson in pool and a chance to get to know each other.
Okay, so I got to remember what you taught me.
K.D. politely didn't let on I wasn't supposed to sink the cue ball,
but what do I know about pool anyway?
What did I do?
[Bb] She sunk one.
[D] So the game's over.
You want to do what I did?
[G] Incredibly difficult.
Then we sat and talked [Ab] about the early days of her career.
[Em] Nashville didn't really [Bb] accept you.
I [Eb] really loved country music and I really had a vision.
I really had a [Bbm] idea of how I wanted to perform country and I [Bb] just went ahead and did it.
I mean, a lot of [D] people said, you're not, it's never going to work.
You don't [Eb] fit in the picture.
Yeah, but the thing is, is that I [Db] love the music. _ _
_ [Cm] _ _ _ _ _ [Db] _ _
_ _ [Fm] _ _ By [Ab] this year, whatever they thought of K.D. in Nashville [Eb] didn't matter.
She had moved from country into popular [Fm] music.
K [Db].D. won her third Grammy award [Gb] for this hit single,
[Ab] Constant Craving, from her album called [F] Ingenue.
It made K.D. an international [Bb] star.
This past year, you came out publicly and said that you're a lesbian.
Were you worried at all about what it might do to your career?
Sure, but [E] I had made the choice that my [Eb] personal liberty and my, you know,
the emancipation that I felt and I have [F] felt about coming out
was definitely more important to me than my career at that point.
K.D. also struck [E] this somewhat shocking pose with supermodel Cindy Crawford
on the [Bb] cover of Vanity Fair.
When you sing, if you sing a love song,
are you singing to a woman, to a man, [Ab] to your audience?
_ [Ebm] Probably more often than not, I'm [Gb] singing to a lover.
_ To a woman.
[Ab] _ _ What are your hopes and dreams?
[Ebm] Sing forever.
Sing until I'm 98.
_ _ [Gb] So, [D] I asked her to sing something [Ab] for us. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Eb] Her [Bb] remarkable voice set a mood [Ab] even in the fool hall,
and K.D. Lang created a special moment. _ _ _ _ _ _
Don't stop.
You love me as long as _ [D] _
_ you _ [Ab] leave me for [Eb] _