I'll Leave Myself a Little Time

Written by Steve Dossick

Not long ago you'd find me feeling so low

I had some troubles that you just can't hide

No time to start but livin' far from my heart

I thought I'd take another look inside

Lovers and friends will come and go like the wind

And there is nothin' any man can do

For what it's worth I'll make a home on this Earth

And I will hope that love will see me through

I'll leave myself a little time for some gladness and even if I don't know why

Tomorrow's gonna bring the sunshine to a brand new day anyway

There's music in the air with laughter everywhere

And love could be the reason why

I'll leave myself a little time to go a different way

I can't believe that now I'm singin' a song

or that I'm laughin' with that great big sun

No one I see has got a worry for me

I'm keepin' old Mister Time on the run

I'll leave myself a little time for some gladness and even if I don't know why

Tomorrow's gonna bring the sunshine to a brand new day anyway

There's music in the air with laughter everywhere

And love could be the reason why

I'll leave myself a little time to go a different way

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As David explains in the following excerpt from the book “C’mon Get Happy…Fear and Loathing on the Partridge Family Bus” by David Cassidy & Chip Deffaa, his voice on the first two of The Partridge Family records, his voice was altered.

“Wes had some problem with the way I naturally sounded. He had me double-track vocals (the way Neil Sedaka had so often done) to give my voice added pop-ness. And by altering the tape speed, he was able to raise the pitch of my voice a half-tone above what it actually was, so that on records I sounded a little younger, lighter than in real life.”

The following two recordings highlight this. The first recording is a small part of the original recording from 1971 LP “Up To Date”. The second recording has been provided by John Gomolka who altered the original track to better reflect David’s true voice.

"I'll Leave Myself a Little Time" - Part of original recording

"I'll Leave Myself a Little Time" - altered to reflect David’s true voice

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