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Billy Ocean – Suddenly (2009) | Track profile | Dork

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Billy Ocean
The Very Best of Billy Ocean
Suddenly

SINGLE

Suddenly

Release date: 2nd February 2009

From The Very Best of Billy Ocean

Track 2

3:52

Pop Music R&B/Soul Quiet Storm

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About This Track

A love song built on the simple revelation that affection transforms how you see the world. Billy Ocean traces the moment when romance stops being abstract and becomes lived experience, moving from scepticism to certainty across verses that catalogue the small intimacies of partnership: holding hands on a shore, the weight of feeling that a thousand words cannot contain. The melody sits in that middle register where sincerity and accessibility meet, neither straining nor coasting. The chorus does the heavy lifting, its repetition of "suddenly you're in love" working as both statement and incantation. There is no irony here, no protective distance. Ocean commits fully to the sentiment, letting the song's structure mirror its subject: a life reorganised around a single moment of recognition. The production stays measured and warm, letting the vocal and the lyric carry the emotional work.

"Suddenly" is a single by Billy Ocean , from the album The Very Best of Billy Ocean, released 2nd February 2009. The track is 3:52 long. It's filed under Pop. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Billy Ocean

Billy Ocean

Lyrics

Suddenly

Ooh, ooh

I used to think that love
Was just a fairy tale
Until that first hello
Until that first smile
But if I had to do it all again
I wouldn't change a thing
'Cause this love is everlasting

Suddenly
Life has new meaning to me
There's beauty up above
And things we never take notice of
You wake up and suddenly
You're in love

Ooh, ooh, yeah, yeah

Girl, you're everything
A man could want, and more
One thousand words are not enough
To say what I feel inside
Holding hands as we walk along the shore
Never felt like this before
Now you're all I'm living for

Suddenly
Life has new meaning to me
There's beauty up above
And things we never take notice of
You wake up, and suddenly
You're in love

Each day
I pray
This love affair would last forever

Ooh, ooh, suddenly
Life has new meaning to me
There's beauty up above
And things we never take notice of
You wake up suddenly
You're in love

Ooh, there's beauty up above
Things we never take notice of, of
You wake up, and suddenly
You're in love
Ooh, ooh, ooh

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Track details

From The Very Best of Billy Ocean

3:522009Single

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Album

The Very Best of Billy Ocean

2nd February 2009

Track number

2

Release year

2009

1When the Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going
4:08
2Suddenly
3:52
3Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car
4:44
4Caribbean Queen (No More Love On the Run)

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Writer: Billy Ocean, Keith Diamond
Producer: Keith Diamond

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