For My Sunday Song #413, we are tackling the power ballad “Another Time, Another Place” by The Defiants. The song is off the band’s third and latest album, ‘Drive’ and it was written by Bruno Ravel and Paul Laine. You have Paul on vocals and keyboards, Bruno Ravel on bass and Rob Marcello on guitars with Van Romaine on drums. The song did not chart and heck I don’t even know if it was a single, but I do know that if this song was released in the mid to late 80’s it would be #1.

The song is about a love that could have been and doesn’t fall in to the abyss of a love that never was. There was someone in the past that he can’t stop thinking about and he longs for her, but they never became lovers. He dreams about that time in the future in another time and another place where that longing gets fulfilled and they fall in love and are together forever and a day. It is rather heartbreaking to want someone so much and long for them like that and yet nothing to satisfy that desire…at least not yet.

This is more like a Journey ballad as “Another Time, Another Place” might be the best ballad by any band in decades. Yes, it is that good to me. Steve Perry look out. I get lost in the chorus as Paul’s vocals will take over your ears and surround you in comfort and a magical bliss. The chorus is huge and so catchy. It draws you in and won’t let go. The scream Paul has at the end is such a surprise and so cool. I mean it isn’t Rob Halford type of cool, but still pretty awesome. The song is pure perfection again. When it comes on and I’m driving in my car, I keep hitting repeat and can never get enough. It usually accompanies for the rest of the drive. “Drive”…isn’t that the name of the album…how funny.

Give the song a listen and let me know what you think. Is it as good as I think it is? It doesn’t matter because I will still think it is awesome. Paul’s vocals are so good on this you can’t prove me wrong. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you all have a wonderful and Happy Sunday!!

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“Another Time, Another Place”

Sometimes my head’s stuck in the clouds
Somewhere far away
And I get lost in dreaming
That faded photograph, stuck in yesterday
The hands of time stopped beating

I wonder
I wonder what could have been
I wonder
Lovers
We could have been lovers
We long for each other
In another time, another place
Someday
We’ll meet again someday
And love will be worth the wait
In another time, another place
How many years have come and gone?
Cos I still see your face
Our love, a distant echo
I always knew you were the one
The one I can’t erase
The one I’ll never let go
I wonder what could have been
I wonder

(Chorus)
If you’re somewhere out there
You’re still inside my heart
I hope you know that I still love you from afar
Even if we’re worlds apart

(Solo)

I wonder
I wonder what could have been
I wonder
Lovers
We could have been lovers
Belonged to each other
In another time, another place
One day
We’ll meet again someday
And love will be worth the wait
In another time, another place

You left my heart waiting
(In another time, another place)
I never stopped loving you
(In another time, another place)
Girl you’re always on my mind
(In another time, another place)
Look at all we left behind
( In another time, another place)

Written by Bruno Ravel and Paul Laine