Reale Real Gone è un singolo scritto Van Morrison; è incluso nell’album Enlightenment, del 1990, ma è stato registrato un anno prima.
La rivista Rolling Stone ha definito il brano “il più coinvolgente R&B di Van Morrison dai tempi di Domino“. Nel 2015 il cantautore nordirlandese ha distribuito la canzone in un duetto con Michael Bublé per l’album Duets: Re-Working The Catalogue.
“L’influenza di Morrison sulla totalità dei cantautori rock è davvero notevole e può essere paragonata, per vastità, a quella di Bob Dylan” (The New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of rock & roll).
I got hit by a bow and arrow
Got me down to the very marrow
And I’m real real gone
Real real gone
I can’t stand up by myself
Don’t you know I need your help
And I’m real real gone
Some people say
You can make it on your own
Oh, you can make it if you try
I know better now
You can’t stand up alone
Oh, baby, that is why
I’m real real gone
I can’t stand up by myself
Don’t you know? I need your help
You’re a friend of mine and I’m real real gone
And Sam Cooke is on the radio
And the night is filled with space
And your fingertips touch my face
You’re a friend of mine and I’m real real gone
I’m real gone now
Oh Lord, I got hit by a bow and arrow
Got me down to the very marrow
You’re a friend of mine and I’m real real gone
And I’m real real gone, I’m real gone
Wilson Pickett said, “In the midnight hour
That’s when my love comes tumbling down”
Solomon Burke said, “If you need me
Why don’t you call me”
James Brown said, “When you’re tired of what you got
Try me”
Gene Chandler said, “There’s a rainbow in my soul”
