We’re on a little thread of Grammy Award winners for Song Lyric Sunday at the moment, and this week we must choose something from the list of Record of The Year laureates. Having drawn from Carole King for last week, Paul Simon a couple of weeks earlier, and not being a particular fan of U2 or pretty much anything from a year that starts with a ‘2’, my choices were comparatively limited.
However, I was happy to plump for this supremely catchy opus from the Doobie Brothers, which won in 1980., having been released the previous year. It’s one of those songs that’s almost impossible to dislike.
He came from somewhere back in her long ago
The sentimental fool don’t see
Tryin’ hard to recreate
What had yet to be created once in her life
She musters a smile
For his nostalgic tale
Never coming near what he wanted to say
Only to realize
It never really was
She had a place in his life
He never made her think twice
As he rises to her apology
Anybody else would surely know
He’s watching her go
But what a fool believes he sees
No wise man has the power to reason away
What seems to be
Is always better than nothing
And nothing at all keeps sending him…
Somewhere back in her long ago
Where he can still believe there’s a place in her life
Someday, somewhere, she will return
She had a place in his life
He never made her think twice
As he rises to her apology
Anybody else would surely know
He’s watching her go
But what a fool believes he sees
No wise man has the power to reason away
What seems to be
Is always better than nothing
There’s nothing at all
But what a fool believes he sees…
Written by Kenny Loggins and Michael McDonald
the only deadhead in the hameau 
You are right, as this song is almost impossible to dislike.
Great choice