Livin' for Love: The Natalie Cole Story (2000) - full transcript

- Don't give me that crap.

You told my bodyguard
everything was under control.

You told him to stay put.

- Natalie, get off the phone,
girl. Come on, let's go.

- Wait for what?

Oh now you want to evacuate.

Well screw you.

move out the way, move.

Let's get the hell out of here.

- Where are you going?

No, no.



- Put me down, James.

You're my bodyguard, you're not my father.

Stop.

Put me down, put me down.

Stop, let me go.

- Its okay, I'm here.

Natalie.

This is gonna be our last.

- No, no disrespect

but if I'm gonna die

I'm gonna die getting high.

♪ Aint she sweet ♪ ♪ Now I ask you ♪

- Natalie Cole

dies in hotel fire, freebasing cocaine.



Now that's a hell of a
headline, don't you think?

And its just one of many
that almost got written.

I can't tell you

how often god saved me from disasters

that I got myself into.

No matter how much I screwed up,

he just kept sending angels my way.

Okay, maybe don't call them angels

but they are the people who love you

when you're real easy to hate.

See that's what life comes
down to, relationships

and no matter what else
we are along the way

and no matter what else we become,

first we are sons and daughters.

- There you go.

You ready?

Okay push that button.

Coming to you live from Hancock Park

its Ms. Natalie and Mr. Nat King Cole.

Ready?

♪ Kemo kimo ♪

♪ Stare a stare ♪

♪ Me hey ♪

♪ Me ho ♪

♪ I love you ♪

- Dad?

People are arriving.

- Okay, let's go sweetie.

- Mary, how sweet of you
to fly in from New York

for my little party.

- I know.

- Oh darling, its your bedtime.

Go inside, say goodnight to your father.

- You know Jack my agent

and this Howard with NBC.

I'm just glad you guys could make it.

And this is Natalie, my daughter.

- Daddy, do I have to go to bed?

- Actually, Nat, Howard
and I need to talk to you.

- Jack, you're not mixing
business with pleasure here?

Just a minute, sweetie.

- It's pretty serious.
- Dad.

Daddy.

- Natalie, daddy's entertaining, let's go.

- Have a good night, sweetie.

- Goodnight.

- Jack, what could be so
important on Christmas Eve.

- Your ratings are solid,
your guests are top drawers.

Nat, your show has been
a real ground breaker

and NBC's been proud to carry it.

- But?

- We can't find a sponsor.

We've been to every
national advertiser twice.

Nobody wants the show.

- So, you're saying no
one wants a colored host?

America's afraid of the dark.

Well I don't believe that.

With so many white folks
watching this show,

somebody will come through.

- Howard, if Capital Records
picks up part of the tab,

they don't call it the house
that Nat built for nothing.

- I'm sorry.

We've explored all the options.

The network just can't
afford to carry the show

without a national sponsor.

I'm sorry.

- Any other show of this
caliber would be fighting

off the sponsors.

Nat, maybe if we hired a white co host

then the network might...

- Maria.

- What are we going to do?

- I go back on the road.

Jack's already booked me for New Years.

- Oh we promised the children we'd be here

for the holidays.

- And we promised the bank
we'd pay the mortgage.

I'm sorry, Maria.

I've got to go.

- I'm going with you.

- No daddy, please don't go away again.

- Oh sweetie.

- Natalie.

- Its okay, sweetie.

It's okay.

- Please dad, promise you'll stay.

- Nathaniel.

♪ Twinkle twinkle little star ♪

♪ How I wonder what you are ♪

- Bye, dad.

- Bye now, Cookie

love you.

- Love you, too.

- You promised you wouldn't go.

- Oh I'm sorry, sweetie.

- I feel sick.

- Oh poor baby.

You got the tickets?

- I have the tickets, dad.

- I'm gonna miss you.

- Please mom, don't go.

- Natalie stop it.

You're eight years old.

Act your age.

Your father needs me.

You stay here with Aunt Charlotte.

I'll call you every night.

Please be good.

- I don't remember the
first time that my dad left

us at home to go to work.

I don't know that we
necessarily ever liked it

but we did more or less get used to it.

I loved performing with my father

and I did that once behind his back

and once with him.

♪ Gonna take a sentimental journey ♪

♪ Gonna set my heart at ease ♪

♪ Gonna make a sentimental journey ♪

♪ To renew old memories ♪

- That was beautiful.

You better not let your mom
catch you in that dress.

She wore this dress when she
sang with Duke Ellington.

- I bet she was beautiful.

- She was something

but you know what, you're something, too.

I like your style.

I could use that energy in my review.

Hey, how bout you and me
sing in a duet for the show?

- What dad, you mean it?

- Yeah, well I'd have to
run it by the producer first

and you'd have to audition.

- What about mom?

- You just leave mom up to me.

Let's get you out of that dress.

- Ladies and gentlemen, please
welcome Mr. Nat King Cole

and his very special guest.

♪ Aint she sweet ♪

♪ See her coming down the street ♪

♪ Now I ask you very ♪

♪ Confidentially ♪

- Dad was, he was great.

He was terrific.

He gave me confidence
that I didn't know I had

and it was very,

it was, you know that
neat feeling that you get

when you're with just
someone that you really love

and you get to spend that time with them

just you and that person?

That's what it felt like.

♪ And I ask you very ♪

♪ Confidentially ♪

♪ Aint we sweet ♪

- Why don't they get along?

- Well my family thinks
your mothers family

is too hoity toity

and your mothers family
thinks we're too poor,

too dark, too baptist.

you ready to go to school?

- Dad?

I don't want to go.

What if I don't like it?

- Why wouldn't you like it?

It's a fine school.

You'll make friends.

Did I ever tell you my dad didn't want me

to be a musician?

He was a preacher, you know,

and he thought I should stay
in church, play the organ.

So when he refused to buy me a piano,

I painted a keyboard on my windowsill

and practiced.

I heard the music in here.

That's what school is, sweetie.

Its a place to strike out on your own,

find out what's in here and
see where that leads you.

But that doesn't mean you
can't miss your old daddy

as much as he's gonna miss you

and before you know it,

you'll be home for Christmas.

The
last time I saw dad relaxed

and happy was just before my freshman year

at Northfield School for Girls.

He had such high hopes for me.

- Nat King Cole.

- Hello.

And this is my daughter,
Natalie, newest classmate.

- Can I please have your autograph?

♪ Chestnuts roasting on an open fire ♪

♪ Jack frost nipping at your nose ♪

♪ Yuletide carols ♪

♪ Being sung by choirs ♪

♪ And folks dressed up like Eskimos. ♪

In the few months

I had been away, everything had changed.

Our house, which always
rang with music, was silent.

- Dad?

- Hi.

Hi.

- Why didn't you tell me he was sick?

- Because he's going to be fine.

Where is the tape?

- How long has he been like this?

Do the doctors know what he's got?

Do they think that its...

- Where!

Is the tape, Natalie?

thank you.

- So she fell asleep in
history class, again?

- Yeah, again.

every time the teacher
talks, she falls asleep.

Its unbelievable.

- Oh Natalie, I'm so sorry.

- Natalie, what's wrong?

- I'm so sorry.

Your mothers sending a car for you.

- Why didn't you tell
me he was about to die?

I never even got a chance to say goodbye

or I love you.

- Did they put makeup on him?

- Yeah.

Daddy?

- Everybody grieves differently.

Some people scream and cry for days.

My sister, Cookie, and I wanted to

but that wasn't my family's approach.

When we buried my father,

we each took that grief

and stuffed it into a little closet, deep,

way deep inside and locked the door

and somehow, somehow we
expected it to stay put.

- Natalie, Natalie, please.

- Mom.

Sometimes I feel like I can't breathe.

It hurts so much.

- Take a bath, it will calm you.

It helps.

- Mom, I want to stay.

I can go to school here

and I can help you with the family.

- I don't need your help.

- Please, mom.

Please.

- Natalie, the key here is to keep moving.

Life goes on.

And your place is at Northfield.

My place is right here.

- No, mom.

I want to stay.

Please.

- When my parents bought
their house in Hancock Park,

there were no black people living there

and the neighborhood association

told my dad they didn't
want any undesirables

moving into the area

and dad replied, neither do I

and if I see any, I'll
be sure to let you know.

So, I grew up like a
rich little white girl

who happened to have dark skin

and then, I went to college.

- Hey, hey everyday.

- Natalie.

When you gonna stop playing flower child

and learn about your blackness, huh?

Yeah, I know who you are.

Got a lot of brothers
and sisters here who do.

Just waiting for you to decide that you

ain’t too good to know us.

Got a powerful speaker,

go and address the black
students union at night.

You might learn a lot from Amad.

I think you should come.

- I think you should
mind your own business.

- We only want to welcome you, sister.

- Black power!

Black power!

- Black power!

Black power!

- Black power!

Black power.

- Yes, you see its not enough

for us to just resist the war.

No, we have to refuse the war.

I want to know why is that we're,

we're the minority over here

but the majority in Vietnam?

How many brothers you
know can just disappear

up in Canada?

How long we just gonna stand here

and let them tell us

that its okay for us to
be last in line at home

but first to die in Vietnam?

oh yes!

♪ We shall not ♪

♪ We shall not be moved ♪

♪ Just like a tree ♪

♪ That's planted by the water ♪

♪ I said ♪

♪ We shall not be ♪

♪ Oh we shall not ♪

♪ We shall not ♪

♪ No no ♪

♪ Be moved ♪

♪ We shall not ♪

- I want you to sing for my band.

- What?

- Look, I play keyboard for
a band called Black Magic

and we need a singer and
baby your voice is beautiful.

Don't turn me down, now.

- No, no I used to sing when I was a kid

but not anymore.

Anyway, I'm premed and
if I'm gonna be a doctor,

I can't waste my time singing.

Besides, my mom, she'd kill me.

- Your mom? I'll talk to your mom, baby.

Look, I won't tell nobody, alright?

I promise.

- The first time that I
performed was in Amherst,

Massachusetts, which was the
same town that my college

was in.

You have to understand that
that was a really wild time

for all of us

so we went in drinking Harvey Wall bangers

and dropping acid and orange sunshine

and I don't think I sang
one show there sober.

It was great.

♪ Till morning comes ♪

♪ Till your heart beats nitroglycerin ♪

♪ Dances until morning ♪

♪ Morning comes ♪

♪ It comes ♪

♪ Dance until morning comes ♪

♪ Till your heart beats nitroglycerin ♪

♪ Dance till morning ♪

♪ Morning comes ♪

- You cold?

You shaking.

- I'm fine.

- Oh.

Why didn't you tell me?

This is serious.

You know, being a woman's first.

Well its a big responsibility.

- Well.

You seem to be up to it.

This is the campus
radio station at UMass.

We're playing all the classics tonight

and this is one of my favorites.

♪ They try to tell us ♪

♪ We're too young ♪

- Now that's a bad sing.

I better go before he
materializes with a shotgun.

- No, stay.

I want you to stay.

- Yeah, yeah that one.

- Excuse me, excuse me.

Could you please tell me
where the residents halls are?

- Yeah, its right there.

- Very good.

Thank you so much.

- I mean, when I signed up
for the outreach program,

I thought I was just gonna
be teaching poor kids

how to read.

But I've seen depression, autism,

hyperactivity.

You know, the full gamut.

- Wow.

Are you hungry?

- Yeah, yeah.

- Natalie.
- Oh, it's my mom. Uh.

- Natalie.
- yes?

Mom, you're early.

- Yes, the traffic was
lighter than I anticipated.

You must be Sheryl.

- Yeah, hi.

- What is that awful smell?

- Patchouli.
- Jasmine.

Bye.

- Come mom, sit, have a seat.

- What in the world have
you done to your hair?

Where's your bra?

You can't go to lunch dressed like that.

I've seen street walkers
dressed better than that.

Natalie, do you have any idea how much

it is costing me to send
you to this university?

- And I'm getting a great education, mom.

- Hey, baby.

What's happening?

Got the sheet music. What
you got for the head?

- Micheal, this is my mom.

- Oh hi, nice to meet you.

You know, I'm running late,
so I got to get going.

- Do you know that
you're failing chemistry?

How do you expect to be a doctor

if you're failing chemistry?

- Actually, I'm changing my major

to child psychology.

- Really?

- It's still medicine but it requires

a lot less science.

So I thought once I got my masters,

I could open a clinic for children

and let music be a part of their therapy.

- Oh sweetie, that is so wonderful.

Please forgive me, I was just worried

that you were still talking about...

- Singing.
- Yes.

- Well mom, you were a singer.

- Yes, but I gave up my
career for your father.

Your father was an incredible talent.

He just needed someone
to help him navigate

to a higher society.

You see, a singing career
is as much about an image

as it is about music.

He had the voice and I had the polish.

I still do.

Which is why one singer
in this family is enough.

- You don't know my mom, she'll freak.

- So what?

I don't see why it matters,
you're just singing.

- Yeah its like telling her
Rockefeller is just oil.

- Alright baby.

- Hey.

- What's going on?

- This is hardcore stuff, its not for you.

- I am so tired everybody
trying to tell me,

you know what.

I want to do this.

- I just always been a curious, reckless

stupid little girl and I just decided

I wanted to try it.

- Are you sure?

- Positive.

- I had no idea that it was anything quite

as heavy as it was supposed to be.

- Okay.

- And the going theory about heroin

is that it makes you sick
the first time you try it,

it makes you sick.

First time I tried it, loved it.

And it was pretty much
downhill from there.

I'ma tell you made me laugh.

Mr. Davis.

What is that out there?

- Finally, you got 20 minutes to set up.

- What is that out there?

- Well its what got
everyone in here tonight.

Do you see that crowd out there?

- No, we're out of here.
Guys get your stuff.

- Natalie, Natalie, calm down.

We can work this out, alright.

- Michael, I know its
not your fault, alright

but I told you don't
bill me as his daughter

cause I won't do his music.

- Natalie, Natalie come here.

Come here.

Give us a minute, give us a minute.

Just relax, alright.

Lets just go up on stage
and introduce everybody

to Natalie Cole, alright?

Look, we'll do it this once
but don't let it happen again.

- Okay, already.

I'll take it down.

- You alright?

- Just this once, Micheal.

I'm telling you.

♪ When the truth is found ♪

♪ To be lies ♪

♪ And all the joy ♪

♪ Within you ♪

- Nature boy, sing nature boy!

♪ Dies ♪

♪ Don't you want somebody to love ♪

♪ Don't you need somebody to love ♪

♪ Wouldn't you love to somebody to love ♪

♪ You better find somebody to love ♪

- Go girl.
- yeah.

- You got it, Natalie.

- Mom, mom.

Can I help you with something?

- No.

But you'll have to tell me
what you want of your dads.

Whatever you don't
want, I'm going to sell.

- Won't fit in your new house?

- What a I supposed to do?

Carry this stuff around
for the rest of my life?

Your father passed away seven years ago.

I'm trying to start a new life.

- Mom, I've been singing for awhile now.

- You've been singing?

What about your degree?

- I'm, I'm still gonna do that.

I just, its just that I
need to do this first.

- Oh you need to do this?

- Yes.
- ah.

You need to do this.

You're not some girl who
can just carry a tune.

You are your father's daughter.

- I don't do his music, mom.

- Show business is a
very difficult business.

- I know!

- Natalie, I don't like this.

- I knew you wouldn't!

- Well I don't!

- I know you don't, mom, okay.

I know you don't like it!

- If you feel this is something you need,

then you must have proper representation.

So, I will call Jack at the agency.

He'll see to it that we
meet the proper people.

- I can still see Marvin

when I first walked into the dance studio.

He reminded me a little of Donny Hathaway,

he had an apple jack hat,
cool little mustache.

- Ha, yes.

I love it.

But I'd love it even
more if she wasn't late.

So, what kind of person
is late to an audition.

- One that's stuck in traffic.

- You leave early for an audition,

everybody knows that.

- Trust me, these guys
are great song writers.

- Kevin, I know you're my manager

but you said that the last three times

and they all stunk.

Where's the bathroom?

- I don't know

but look, we don't want
to keep them waiting.

- Kevin, I'm auditioning them,

you're not auditioning me

so if we're a little bit late,

its okay.

Excuse me, where's the bathroom.

- Natalie, look, I know
you're tired of gigs

where you got to compete with the entree

for attention.

Which is why I'm working so hard

to get you a recording contract.

For that I need a demo and for that

we got to find you
songwriters that can give you

the right sound and these guys are great.

So let's just go do this.

Natalie, honey, I need
you straight for this.

- Kevin.

I really have to go use the bathroom.

- Okay.

- Be right back.

- Takes us right into here.

Bam.

Bam.

- I'm leaving.

I'm going to lunch.

- Marvin, come on.

Just a little longer.

Shes' supposed to be good.

- I don't care how good she is.

This is thoughtless and arrogant.

I'm not gonna sit around
here and wait for them.

- Uh, hey.

Kevin Hunt.

- Kevin, how you doing?

- Good, good. I'm Natalie's
manager and this is.

- Ms. Natalie Cole.

- That's right.

- Chuck Jackson, pleased to meet you.

- Pleased to meet you.

- This is my partner, Marvin Yancy.

- Its nice of you to show up.

- Nice to be here.

- Well why don't we get this thing going?

- You saw the rewrite, right?

- Yes uh.

- Well take a look at this.

♪ Here I am ♪

♪ There you are ♪

♪ You asked me to walk ♪

♪ A thousand miles ♪

♪ Just be where you are ♪

- I can't say no.

♪ You can't say no ♪

♪ If you ask me ♪

- Bring that up just a little bit

♪ If I had a dime ♪

♪ Its yours as well as mine ♪

♪ I'd keep the penny ♪

♪ You know I'd would ♪

♪ And gladly give you the dime ♪

- Let her riff, Marvin, let her riff.

♪ You can't say no ♪

♪ No no ♪

♪ If you ask me ♪

♪ Oh no no no ♪

- Yes I like it, I like it.

Let the Grammys begin.

- So you guys want to make a demo?

♪ If I had a dime ♪

♪ Its yours ♪

♪ As well as mine ♪

♪ I'd keep the penny ♪

♪ You know I would ♪

♪ And gladly give you the dime ♪

♪ Oh I can't say no ♪

♪ No no ♪

♪ If you ask me ♪

♪ Oh oh oh ♪

- Ah, I'm sorry.

Can we start over?

- Natalie, I'm coming in.

- Take five guys, this
might take a minute.

She was fine yesterday.

I don't know what's going on today.

- Here you go.

Whoa, whoa, your hands are shaking.

You want to stop for a little while?

- No no no.

- You sure?

- Yes.

- Try it again?

I'll stay in here with you.

Chuck, one more time.

- Okay, rolling Marvin.

That's it?

Capitol was the only label
that liked our demo tape?

- Its the house that Nat built.

- Look Natalie, I got to warn you

that not everybody supports this project.

I mean your dads records
made a lot of money

and some people feel like this might uh,

negatively impact the franchise.

- Wait, who said that?

- A couple of Capitol executives.

- And my mom, right?

- Natalie, what do you want to do?

- Kevin just tell my mom I'm sorry

that she thinks I'm gonna
ruin my father's legacy.

We're gonna make this record.

We're gonna do this thing.

- Yeah Natalie.

This is the right thing to do.

- Do it, we gotta do this.

- February 6th 1975,
that's a birthday I will

never ever forget.

I got busted in Canada.

Alleged daughter of Nat King Cole

arrested for heroin.

Thanks to my mom, it was
just a little article

that buried at the back
of a Toronto newspaper.

They gave me three months probation

and I should of been in jail.

My cousin, Janice, came to
help me get through it all

and take me back to Chicago.

I'm telling you, Aunt
Bay's little apartment

never looked so good.

- Oh bay, thank you, thank you, thank you.

- This is an answered prayer to me.

My brothers girl come to stay.

Now I know our families haven't been close

but we're gonna make up for lost time.

We don't have much, honey,

but what we got, is yours.

- Aunt Bay had what we call

a hot line to the lord.

She was wonderful.

Janice was her pupil.

- Ms. Natalie.

- Janice.

Oh girl.

- Fixed up the couch for you?

Now do you prefer the lumpy cushion

under your shoulders or your rear end?

- Pam, come meet your cousin.

- How do you, ma'am?

Ms. Cuz?

- Girl, call me Natalie.

Give me a hug.

- What?

What, Natalie.

Its a hit.

- I'm sorry, Chuck.

I don't like it.

Marvin do you like this?

- I think its good.

- See, you wouldn't know
a hit if you heard one.

Think that tour just wore your butt out.

You know what you need?

- What?

- A little bit of this,
a little bit of that.

- Chuck?

Why is you're married and
you act like your single

and Marvin's single and
he acts like he's married?

- Single?

- Yeah.

- Marvin ain’t hardly single.

He's engaged.

Aren't you, Marvin?

- Um, well that's nice.

That's nice.

So, when's the wedding?

- Oh July, maybe January.

Shoot, that wedding dates
been pushed so many times,

his fiancee walks around with a bouquet

and a box of rice just
to be ready when he is.

Natalie, look at this.

Just do me a favor, look at it.

This is a hit.

- I don't like it.

- You don't have to love every tune.

Natalie, we record this is in a week.

You still don't know the words.

- I know.

I actually like what
Marvin's done with the music

but I still your lyrics stink.

- My lyrics do not stink.

- Oh come on now, they do.

This is will be, you and me, yes siree.

What is that?

Hey, hey.

- Hey.

- Hello, gorgeous.

- Give me some skin.

- Listen I'm sorry I'm late
but I got held up at a party.

- Uh no, that's okay.

Hey everybody, this is my main man,

Henry from New York.

This is everybody.

- How y'all doing?
- hey, Henry.

- So Henry, tell me did
you bring those papers

that I need to sign from New York?

We'll go outside.

Be back in a minute.

- What's going on?

♪ This will be ♪

♪ An everlasting love ♪

♪ Oh yes it will now ♪

♪ You brought a lot of sunshine ♪

♪ Into my live ♪

♪ You filled me with happiness ♪

♪ I never knew ♪

♪ You gave me more joy ♪

♪ Than I ever dreamed of ♪

♪ And no one ♪

♪ No one can take the place of you ♪

♪ This will be ♪

♪ You and me ♪

♪ Yes siree ♪

♪ Eternally ♪

♪ Hugging and squeezing ♪

♪ And kissing and pleasing ♪

♪ Together forever ♪

♪ Through ever whatever ♪

♪ Hey ♪

♪ You're so deserving ♪

♪ You're so deserving ♪

♪ Yeah yeah yeah ♪

♪ Love ♪

♪ Love ♪

♪ Love ♪

♪ Love ♪

♪ Love ♪

♪ Love love ♪

♪ From now on ♪

- Why are you so curious?

- Because you're my friend
and I've never met her.

Most men don't keep their
fiancees hidden, you know?

- Well I've never met
any of your boyfriends,

except Henry.

- Henry?

- Oh Henry.

- Henry is not my boyfriend.

He's my buddy.

He's lady's a good friend of mine.

Anyway, I don't have time for boyfriends

cause I'm married to my music.

Kind of sad.

- Nah, I think its great.

I mean, how you throw
yourself into whatever you do

150 percent.

I love that.

- Yeah?

Well I like the way that
you're so calm and centered.

I do.

- Okay.

Natalie.

When we're finished with this record

I'd like to uh, I was wondering maybe.

You like to go to church with me?

- Church?

- Yes, church.

♪ I'm a living testimony ♪

♪ I want to be ♪

♪ Whatever you want me to be ♪

- Marvin?

- Good morning, Natalie.

Glad you could make it.

- Thank you, Reverend Yancy.

- See you next time.

- So, why didn't you tell me?

- Well because some people just can't see

how a man of god can also
be a good R&B musician.

I mean sometimes its even hard for me

to reconcile between the two.

I feel like maybe I should choose

but how can you choose between
your heart and your soul?

I love them both,
Natalie, I need them both.

So I don't.

- Oh.

- What's wrong?

- Okay my first advance check
from the record company.

- Its gone.

I got rid of your works.

- You had no right.

- You have no right.

Natalie, look at your life.

You got a hit song.

Everyone is saying you'll
be nominated for a Grammy.

Tomorrow, you're playing
at the hottest club

in New York City.

God has given you so much.

How dare you waste it on that junk.

Turn to him.

He will be there for you

and so will I.

praise god.

I'm gonna go get momma.

Let's pray together, okay?

- Hello.
- Hey, Henry.

It's me.
- hey, girl.

- Yeah, I need some stuff.

Sure, alright.

You know me.

- Okay tomorrow.
- Okay, baby.

- Uh huh, got to go.

- What's up, girl.

You want something.

Hey get back here, pretty girl.

♪ This will be ♪

- Yo, this better be good.
- It's good, go one.

♪ This will be ♪

♪ The one I waited for ♪

♪ This will be ♪

♪ The first time anyone has loved me ♪

♪ Oh oh ♪

♪ I'm so glad ♪

♪ You found me ♪

- Watch where the hell you're going.

♪ You found me in time ♪

♪ You found me in time ♪

- Producer of the year.
- I like the way it sounds.

- Did Natalie tell anybody
she was gonna be late?

- Isn't Natalie's mother coming?

- No but she sent these.

They must of cost a fortune.

- My girl was singing,
you couldn't keep my away.

- Where is she?

- Hey everybody.

I'm here.

Let's get this thing moving.

- Do you have any idea
who's out there, Natalie?

Do you know what the press
is gonna do with this?

- Stop it, Kevin.

She's just sick.

You're working too hard.

- She is not sick, momma.

She's high.

- Marvin listen.

Talk to me

- I'm canceling this before
you kill your career.

- I'm fine.

- You can hardly walk.

- What about coffee?

- Coffee?

Bay, this is heroin

and you can't fix heroin
with a cup of coffee.

- Kevin, just get out of here please.

I will get her ready.

- Janice.

- Come on, girl.

- Janice, listen.

I'm sorry, girl.

- Good.

Now do something about it

- Ladies and gentlemen, Ms. Natalie Cole.

♪ Here I am ♪

♪ There you are ♪

♪ If you ask me to walk ♪

♪ Tell me ♪

♪ Can't say no ♪

♪ Can't say no ♪

♪ If you ask me ♪

♪ If I had it ♪

♪ If I had a dime ♪

♪ Its yours ♪

♪ As mine ♪

♪ Keep the penny ♪

- I'm just a little nervous.

Buddy's is a big club.

I'm sorry.

You mind if I start over again?

Come on, sister girl.

♪ Here I am ♪

♪ There you are ♪

♪ If you ask me to walk ♪

♪ A thousand miles ♪

♪ Just to be where you are ♪

♪ Can't so no ♪

♪ No no ♪

♪ If you ask me ♪

♪ Oh oh oh ♪

♪ I can't so no ♪

♪ No no no ♪

♪ No no ♪

♪ If you ask me ♪

♪ I can't say no ♪

♪ Ohhhhh ♪

♪ No no no ♪

♪ No no no ♪

♪ No no no ♪

♪ If you ask me ♪

♪ No no no ♪

♪ No no way ♪

♪ Can't say no ♪

- That is a true story being
at Buddy's place on heroin high

and it was that same
night, August 13th 1975

that I went home and
basically threw my guts out

and never touched heroin again.

- Just break through it.

Yes, yes.

Praise god.

- Is something wrong?

- No Marvin, there is nothing wrong.

I got to be on a plane in two hours

and this damn thing won't stay closed.

- It's okay, it's alright.

- I'm sorry.

I knew it would be hard
staying clean under pressure

I just didn't know I
would be such a mess and.

- Well that is an unexpected perk

now come on now, you've got
to focus on the positive.

I mean you're healthy.

You're beautiful

and you won two Grammys.

I am proud of you.

Marvin Yancy?

- Yeah, yeah.

Is that the new sheet music?

- Wedding invitations.

You didn't order wedding invitations?

- No, yeah, yeah.

They just weren't supposed to be delivered

to this address.

- This is the address I have.

- That must of been a
mix up in the paperwork.

- It happens, no problem.

Thanks.

Congratulations, ma'am.

Congratulations.

- A stranger thinks we're getting married.

- What do you want me to do?

Track him down and set him straight?

- No I think you're the one that needs

to be set straight, Marvin.

- Natalie, there was a time
when I was back sliding.

I was losing myself

and Sharon, Sharon is a good woman.

Strong in her faith and she
helped me get back on track.

I owe her, I made that promise.

Come on, I'm a pastor.

A role model.

How can I just break a promise?

- No, how can you marry a woman
that you don't love, Marvin?

- I do love her.

In a way.

- In a way?

Well that's cute.

I promise to love and to cherish in a way

until death do us part.

Well Marvin you go ahead

and you do what you need to do.

I need to tell you that I love you.

What you do with that is up to you.

- Hurry hurry.

You got a plane to catch.

- Are you sure you want to do this?

- Hey, that comes at
the end of the ceremony.

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today

to join this man and this
woman in holy matrimony.

Do you Marvin take Natalie to be your...

- Kevin, look look, have
you seen the bassinet.

- No, it's very nice.

Guys, some of these dates
have been booked for months

and I'm talking major venues, here.

- Look at her, Kevin.

She should be home now, resting.

- Natalie, do you want these
things in the linen closet

or the nursery?

- The nursery.

Kevin, this is Dru, our nanny.

- Hi.
- hi.

- How are you?

- Come on, sweetie.

- Okay.

- She's my client and I'm
looking out for her career

and if I...

- Kevin, Kevin, we are having a baby.

- Alright, go have a happy baby.

I'm sorry.

♪ Cause our love will
stand tall as the trees ♪

♪ Our love ♪

♪ Will be ♪

- Look, its Natalie Cole.

♪ Our love ♪

♪ Will change peoples wrongs to rights ♪

- Can I have one?

♪ And we'll never die ♪

♪ And we'll always be together ♪

- Baby what's the matter?

Why are you awake?

- Its nothing.

Just don't know what I
would do without you.

I'm so blessed.

- Oh Natalie.

If anybody's blessed.

Baby, it's me.

Lord, we want to thank you for everything

that you've given us

but mostly for the love that grounds us.

For the love that keeps
us strong for each other

and strong in you.

Jesus name.

- In Jesus name.

- Amen.
- amen.

- I know.

It seems too good to be true but it was.

I mean I had everything I ever wanted

and when life is really going great,

what do you do?

You find a way to screw it up.

♪ Where can you go ♪

♪ When you're loving just to love ♪

- You can play that one.

Hey!

- I love the new album.

♪ We've all been there before ♪

- Hey I'm glad you could make it

hey girl.

♪ But no matter how I'm feeling ♪

- Natalie Cole, disco lady.

Is there anything you can't sing?

You ain’t never done this?

- Uh huh.

- Come on, try it.

It will make you feel a lot clearer

and a whole lot more creative, too.

- Okay.

How do you do this?

- Just snort it, baby.

- It's a nice little buzz.

Goes good with Champagne.

Come on reverend, its your turn.

Oh that's it.

Okay reverend.

- Gentlemen, I apologize for the delay.

It won't be too much longer now.

- Chuck.
- Kevin, where have you been?

- What do you mean where have I been?

- She's been in there all day.

She won't listen to me anymore.
You need to handle this.

- Oh man.

Natalie honey, come on Natalie...

- Natalie, come on!

- Hey hey.

Natalie.

why didn't you call me sooner?

- I've been calling you all
day. Where have you been?

- What do you mean where have I been?

- You knew this was a big day for us

- I can't work with that guy.
- What guy?

- That guy behind the soundboard.

He doesn't know crap.

Chuck, he's like 19 years old.

He's a little smart ass, Kevin.

We are professionals, okay.

We need professional technicians...

- Well this is shaping up
into a nice little disaster.

Does our friend have her drugs in there?

- What, what did you just say?

- Get him out of my face!

- Marvin, Marvin forget it.

- Don't be talking about
my woman like that.

- Get him.

- She ain’t on those drugs, man.

- What's wrong with you, come on. Come on.

- I'm really sorry about that, you know

but you got it wrong about Natalie.

You know, just a little bit stressed out

and we had a couple of technical...

- Shut up!

Do you know

how much this is costing the company?

Now if your client doesn't have her drugs

get them for her.

Get her high and get her out here singing

before I pull the plug.

- How you doing, honey?

- Bang.

- Bang bang.

- Bang.

- Bang bang.

- Bang bang.

- Bam bam.

- Bye, money.

- Hey Robbie, hey little man.

- Bye, mister.

- So Marvin, you know,
what's going on with him?

- He keeps getting on my case

about cleaning up this house

and he said

he's gonna take my baby if
I don't stop getting high.

But see, he knows,

he knows how much I love Robbie.

Hell, he's getting high
and he's a preacher.

- Damn.

- Right now he's probably standing up

in a pulpit in Chicago

talking to people about how
to get their lives together

after he was getting high all night.

- I think you need to relax.

- Now that's why I like you.

- That's why I like you, too.

all aboard, captain.

Choo Choo.

- Robbie!

I don't have time for games.

Robbie!

Robbie!

Robbie!

Natalie!

I can't swim.

Natalie!

Oh my god, I can't swim.

Natalie!

Robbie almost drowned in the pool!

- What?

Oh my god!

Dru!

Oh Robbie.

I'm sorry, baby.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

Oh god.

- Why'd the hell you even have a child

if you were just gonna
let the help raise it?

- No we had a child, Marvin

and where in the hell where you huh?

You spend more time in
Chicago with that damn church

than you do in your own home.

- Home, what home?

How can you call this a home?

You're not even around half the...

Mommy, mommy.

- I want a divorce.

- Yeah okay.

- I know it was nuts.

In a split second, my marriage was over

but that's addiction.

You see it overwhelms every sane idea

and impulse that you've ever had

and reinforces all the crazy ones.

From here on out, it's all downhill.

Natalie Cole fries in hotel fire.

- Lord if you don't want me to get high

then send your angels.

- Let's go, you're okay.

You're okay.

- Cookie, please talk some
sense into your sister.

- I'm scared, Natalie.

You almost died.

That's a wake up call.

You need help.

I know you're under lots of pressure

and I know you didn't
mean for it to get so bad

but it did

and you need to do something about it now.

You know that, don't you?

- Don't you know what people are saying?

Don't you care?

Think about your son.

Think about your family, Natalie.

This is not just yourself
that your destroying.

It's all of us, Natalie.

Or are you too far gone to see that?

You need to get help.

- Your mothers filed suit to take over

your finances, Natalie and
speaking as your business manager

I think its a good idea.

You have hardly anything in the bank.

Kevin, Kevin can hardly
get you booked anymore.

In fact, I think you need a new manager.

I think Dan Cleary can
get you working again

but only after you get your life together.

- Alright.

I'll do it.

In rehab I had to learn and
relearn the true meaning of life

and then one day, before I left

this girl came to me and she said,

did you know I just realized who you are?

And its when she said that to me

that I, I just realized who I was.

- Wow.

- And then I said, you know what?

It's time for me to go.

- Well it was time.

You were ready.

- Yeah and that's why its so great

for me to be sitting here
and talking about it.

I've done all the damage to myself.

- What was I saying?

I've done all the damage to myself.

What a joke.

I came out of that rehab
as messed up as ever.

Now Kevin and I parted
ways, which was for the best

but I'd given up on me.

But god never gave up.

- We care about you Natalie,

we're afraid you're gonna lose your life.

- Capitol dumped you.

Now Epic won't renew your contract

because your album for
them was a disaster.

Nobody will work with you.

Your reputation is killing your career

and I can't save it.

Where's your son?

- Robbie's um,

he's with Dru.

- But where, doing what?

- Dan.

- You don't know, do you?

What's gonna happen to him if you die?

- Natalie, there's a center
in Minnesota, Hazleden.

They have an excellent rehab program.

- I tried rehab and it didn't work.

- No, you didn't work.

What are you looking for?

- Gum.

Screw this.

Driver.
- yeah.

- Turn around, we're gonna go back.

- No.

Keep driving.

- You know what, Dan?

You're about this close to getting fired.

You alright back there?

- Of all the dumb, stupid ideas.

Obviously we need to go back home

and reevaluate this thing.

- No!

No, we're gonna walk to
the nearest gas station

and get some help.

- No you're going to the gas station,

I'm getting back in the car.

- No, you're not.

You're gonna stay right
here where I can see you.

- You are so fired, Dan Cleary.

You are fired!

- I was sobbing like I've never sobbed

not in my adult life

and then I uh,

I just woke up.

- How do you feel about that, Natalie,

about Sarah's dream?

- Let me just say this about rehab,

its tough.

At first, its like
getting your teeth pulled

with no Novocaine.

- I remember heroin withdrawal

it was sheer hell for like a week,

then it was over.

But coke, so much worse.

- And the last thing
you want to do is talk.

- When I started out it was fun.

- Is it still fun?

- No.

- So why do it?

- I want to

- The work of therapy is
to peel away your layers

of denial and anger.

Its like peeling an onion.

- I don't get a high, I feel like hell.

I can't think.

- What are you thinking about
when you're high, Natalie?

- Eventually you get to the pain,

that's why you shot up and snorted

and smoked yourself into
oblivion in the first place,

to avoid the pain.

So you could feel nothing.

So when you start getting sober,

you start feeling again.

- I wrote my son a letter.

His nanny wrote me back

and said he took my letter
and stood in the corner

like he'd done something wrong.

Blamed himself, he didn't blame me.

When I think about how I let him down

and everybody else.

- How have you let them down?

- Well lets see, um.

I broke up my family.

Marvin went and married somebody else.

Screwed up my career.

- So who have you hurt the most?

I don't think you've really
dealt with his death yet.

Did you grieve?

- Of course I grieved.

I didn't wallow in it.

I mean you can't go on with your life

if you're wrapped up in self pity.

- Grief is not self pity.

- Then what is it?

- Its the process of accepting your loss.

If you don't grieve, if
you push down that pain,

you may seem fine on the outside

but inside, you're an emotional time bomb.

I don't blame you for being
scared of the pain, Natalie.

But you have to face it

and you're not alone.

- I thought I was gonna break,

I didn't want to feel that much pain,

it was horrible.

I didn't want to miss my dad, that much.

I guess that's why I
put it off for so long.

- I resented my mom for
not being there for me

when I was growing up.

My dad wasn't there either

but I gave him excuses.

I just, I laid all the blame on her.

- So maybe you've been unfair to her?

she won't do it

she doesn't want to participate
in your therapy with you.

- She'll sign the check
but she won't help me heal.

- I'm sorry.

- Do you know she didn't even tell me

that my father was dying?

Never even Gave me a
chance to say goodbye?

What would you call a woman like that?

- Human.

So terrified of losing the
man who defined her life

that she couldn't face the truth.

For a long time, it was so much easier

to blame my mother than
to try and understand her,

forgive her, accept her, love her

as a woman with fears and faults

just like me.

♪ I never thought ♪

♪ I'd ever make it ♪

♪ I can't believe ♪

♪ The hell I've been through ♪

♪ Couldn't see the light ♪

♪ At the end of the tunnel ♪

♪ I didn't know what to do ♪

♪ I've been through the rain ♪

♪ I've been through the fire ♪

♪ There was something that I never knew ♪

♪ I had an angel on my shoulder ♪

♪ With a path for me ♪

♪ Divine ♪

♪ Must be an angel on my shoulder ♪

- Am I still fired?

- How's Robbie?

- Oh good.

- Yeah?
- yeah.

- I got him and Dru
moved into your new place

in Studio City.

It's small.

- Well its okay.

Robbie and I, we don't need big,

we just need an income.

- Yeah, I have to tell you, Natalie.

You're dead broke, we're gonna
have to file for bankruptcy.

I'm sorry.

But I have put the feelers out

and as soon as you're ready,
I'll start booking you.

Small gigs at first, out of the limelight

until you get your chops back.

- Dan, I haven't even
sung a note in six months.

I don't even know if I can sing again.

I put on all this weight.

- Natalie, look it won't be easy, I know

but when you're fighting
your old reputation

and its always harder for a
woman than it is for a man.

But I know you can do it, Natalie.

I know it.

Like I said, its small but its nice.

You have great neighbors.

Surprise!

I've got concert dates booked.

Natalie, there's just one thing.

I've been talking with
all the major labels.

None of them want to move forward.

- What?

Without an audition.

- What!

They want to audition you.

I told you it wouldn't be
easy to fight your reputation.

- Dan, I have Grammys.

I have gold records.

I know.

- I'm not auditioning for nobody.

Natalie, I'm sorry.

- Mommy.

Mommy.

- Baby.

You got a boo boo.

Come here.

It's gonna be okay.

Close your eyes.

Its gonna be fine.

Mommy's gonna sing you
a little song, okay?

♪ Kemo kimo ♪

♪ Stare a stare ♪

♪ I love you ♪

♪ I'm catching hell ♪

♪ Living here ♪

Jackpot.

♪ I never realized ♪

♪ That you ♪

♪ Mean so much to me ♪

- That's right, keep on singing.

♪ I'm catching hell ♪

♪ Living in here alone ♪

♪ I hear ♪

♪ I just want you to come back baby ♪

♪ Come back ♪

♪ Cause heres where you ♪

- My first sober gig was humiliating

to be right back where I started

but at least Marvin and I had managed

to stay friends.

Oh you guys need some serious work.

- Hey, mom.

- I don't need any work.

Robbie, go get your bag.

So how'd it go?

- Well, Mercury's not the
only record label in town,

you know?

- Yeah well, I wish I could stay

but I got to get back
for my Wednesday night.

- Oh I remember.

Deacon's meeting.

- Yeah.
- yeah.

- So, how's married life?

- Its up and down.

I miss you, Natalie.

I've been trying to remember.

I know we were messed up

but what were we thinking?

- We weren't.

I wasn't.

Otherwise I would of never let you go.

- You ready to go boy?

Let's get out of here.

Mr. Cleary,
are you still holding?

- Yes, yes I'm still holding.

- I'm sorry, Mr.
Lemp is still in a meeting.

- Dan?

Hey.

Did they see me?

Hello, Mr. Cleary?

- Did I get my contract
in Manhattan or what?

Mr. Cleary, are you still there?

- He never showed.

I'm sorry, Natalie.

Bruce, your guy never showed.

Natalie sang her heart out

and your guy wasn't there to hear it.

- Oh it was probably
just a misunderstanding.

- I hope so.

I hope he didn't blow her off

because of some crap rumor
that she's still a junkie.

I hope that he took this
assignment as seriously

as you seemed to when we agreed
that this was her audition.

- Jerry?

- Look, I was on the freeway.

I nearly had an accident.

What can I say?

God told me to turn back.

- Well gods been talking to me, too

and he said you better give
Natalie a two album deal.

Ms. Cole, I
really love your new album.

Thank you so much for
autographing it for me.

- Okay.

Thank you.

Thanks.

- Hey momma, I got a new car.

- Hey guys.

What?

Dru.

What am I gonna do with you?

Hey Dan.
- Natalie.

- How's it going?

- I just talked to Chuck.

- How is he?

How is he?

- Natalie, Marvin died this
afternoon of a heart attack.

I'm so sorry.

- Oh.

- Are you okay?

- Yeah.

Just give me a minute.

Honey.

Sweetie.
- Mom.

- Sweetie, um.

Your daddy died today.

- I just talked to him on the phone.

Oh my babies.

- You don't have to try to be brave.

If you want to cry its okay.

I'll even cry with you.

- I love you, mom.

- I love you, too, Rob.

I love you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Ladies and gentlemen, today
the Reverend Marvin J. Yancy

passed away.

He was,

he was my first love.

He was my only love

and I'd like to dedicate this song to him.

♪ You're my morning star ♪

♪ Shining brightly beside me ♪

♪ And if we keep this love ♪

♪ We will last through all eternity ♪

♪ Just the way we are ♪

♪ I love it love it ♪

♪ Its just the way it should be ♪

♪ Our love ♪

♪ Stand tall as the trees ♪

Honey, Rob.

Hurry up cause they're gonna be here soon.

Now did you remember to
take the price tags off it?

Okay.

Normally we're pure jazz

but today its all Christmas carols

and now one of the most requested songs.

Merry Christmas everybody.

♪ Chestnuts roasting on an open fire ♪

♪ Jack frost nipping at your nose ♪

♪ Yuletide carols ♪

♪ Being sung by choirs ♪

♪ And folks dressed up like Eskimos ♪

♪ Everybody knows ♪

♪ A turkey and some mistletoe ♪

♪ Helps to make the season bright ♪

♪ Tiny tots with their eyes all aglow ♪

♪ Will find ♪

It really is a wonderful catalog,

which Capitol does own

and I've even heard other artists

are thinking of recording
his songs as well

so I think its a perfect opportunity.

- But you've already got
a solid pop and R&B career

going right now.

So if you try something new,
you might lose your audience.

- Why not record one of your dads songs

on your next pop album?

Give it a funky beat.

That could work.

- Yeah

- I just want to do a
tribute album to my father.

- Well, that might be possible

if say you had another hit record.

Or two.

Two solid pop albums

and then you can do this
little jazz thing of yours.

- Going off on a tangent at this point

will kill your career.

- Exactly, okay?

Thanks for your time.

If you need anything, you
know how to get ahold of me.

Oh and Dan, always a pleasure.

You coming?

- Damn suits.

Dan, all they care about
is the bottom line.

- Natalie, they do have a point.

Audiences love to put their
entertainers in a box.

Break out of that box, they
might not let you back in.

- Yeah, I know.

But I have spent my
entire career trying not

to be defined as the
daughter of Nat King Cole.

- I know.

- But the truth is,

I wouldn't be where I am without him.

I owe him.

And Dan I don't care
if it hurts my career.

I need to do this.

- Say we can get out of
the contract with AMI,

we'll still need a label
that can back us up.

Have you ever met Bob Krasnow?

- A tribute album?

- Look Bob, we're just so grateful

that you could see us so
soon after your surgery.

I mean if you want to
a pin in this until...

- Natalie Cole sings Nat King Cole.

- Well yeah.

What's your favorite song?

- Its hard to say.

Its hard to whittle it down to just one.

- Exactly

and I mean just think of how many people

have fallen in love with
Dad's music over the years.

Its timeless.

- Okay.

You can have you contract with Alektra

but we need to talk about producers

and songs.

You can't touch the
arrangements of Paper Moon

and Unforgettable.

- Well actually, Mr. Krasnow,

I was thinking Unforgettable, I could sing

it as a duet.

- Who's singing the other part?

- My dad.

- It was a lovely wedding, really.

It was just a bit, well ostentatious.

These Hollywood couplings usually are.

What is so funny, young lady?

What's so funny?

- Nothing mom, its just nice to see you.

It's been awhile.

- Yes it has.

We both lead full lives.

I'm just a phone call away, Natalie.

We do better long
distance, don't you think?

I have to tell you, I really
do like the short hair.

It's very chic.

- Thanks.

- So uh.

How is the new album coming?

- Its fine mom, just fine.

- You know this is going
to change your life.

- You don't want me to do it?

- I didn't say I don't want you to do it

although I do remember you telling me once

that you never wanted to
compete for your fathers name.

- What I said was I wanted to
be a singer in my own right

and now I am.

- Which is why I don't
understand you're inviting

comparisons is dangerously foolish.

- Mother please.

- This is stupid.

- Oh please, mother.
- and its foolish.

- Mother, mother.

Mom.

I need your help.

I want to do an Unforgettable video.

The director needs footage,

we need some home movies on dad.

If possible.

- I don't have any.

- And you don't think you could find some?

- I think you should speak to Cookie.

Now I really have to go, Natalie.

I have some people waiting for
me at the hotel for dinner.

- Mom.

Mom, I don't want to compete with anyone.

I never wanted to, never.

See you.

- Goodbye, Natalie.

Bye, Natalie.

- Mom?

- I can't stay.

I don't want to miss my flight.

Natalie, you remember your godfather, Sam?

His son was always running around

sticking that movie camera
into everybody's face?

Well I remembered that
he saves everything.

I phoned him.

He brought over some
footage of your father.

You know your father, he
recorded in this very studio.

- I know, mom.

Why don't you stay?

- I can't stay.

I'll miss my plane.

- Mom.

Johnny.

You know what I'd really like to do?

I'd like to try this out
here with the orchestra.

Is that okay?

Okay.

♪ Unforgettable ♪

♪ That's what you are ♪

♪ Unforgettable ♪

♪ Though near or far ♪

♪ Like a song of love ♪

♪ That clings to me ♪

♪ How the thought of you ♪

♪ Does things to me ♪

♪ Never before ♪

♪ Has someone ♪

♪ Been more ♪

♪ Unforgettable ♪

♪ In every way ♪

♪ And forever more ♪

♪ And forever more ♪

♪ That's how you stay ♪

♪ That's how you'll stay ♪

♪ That's why darling ♪

♪ Its incredible ♪

♪ That someone so unforgettable ♪

♪ Thinks that I am ♪

♪ Unforgettable too ♪

So many angels in my life.

I don't really know why god
blessed with me a second

and third and fourth chances.

I think its called gods grace.

I didn't deserve it

but I'm trying hard not to waste it.

Now there's a headline.

Natalie Cole celebrates miracle.

I like it.

What do you think?

Alright, it needs a little work.

Well anyway.

Thanks for watching.

Good night.

♪ I never thought ♪

♪ I'd ever make it ♪

♪ I can't believe ♪

♪ The hell I've been through ♪

♪ Couldn't see the light ♪

♪ At the end of the tunnel ♪

♪ I didn't know what to do ♪

♪ I've been through ♪

♪ The rain ♪

♪ I've been through the fire ♪

♪ There was something that I never knew ♪

♪ I had an angel on my shoulder ♪

♪ With a plan for me ♪

♪ Divine ♪

♪ Must be an angel ♪

♪ On my shoulder ♪

♪ Who was right there ♪

♪ Right there all the time ♪

♪ Everybody needs ♪

♪ Someone to cling to ♪

♪ With an unchanging love ♪

♪ I finally found ♪

♪ A hand to hold onto ♪

♪ A shelter to run to ♪

♪ Now I see ♪

♪ He's watching over me ♪

♪ Angel on my shoulder ♪

♪ Angel ♪

♪ I've got an angel ♪

♪ On my shoulder ♪

♪ With a plan for me ♪