You Are the Sunshine of My Life Lyrics
You are the sunshine of my life
That's why I'll always be around
You are the apple of my eye
Forever, you'll stay in my heart
[Verse 1: Stevie Wonder]
I feel like this is the beginning
Though I've loved you for a million years
And if I thought our love was ending
I'd find myself drowning in my own tears, woah
[Chorus: Stevie Wonder]
You are the sunshine of my life, yeah
That's why I'll always stay around, mmm-mmm, yeah-yeah
You are the apple of my eye
Forever, you'll stay in my heart
[Verse 2: Stevie Wonder]
You must have known that I was lonely
Because you came to my rescue, ooh
And I know that this must be heaven
How could so much love be inside of you, woah?
[Chorus: Stevie Wonder]
You are the sunshine of my life, yeah
That's why I'll always stay around, mmm (Baby)
You are the apple of my eye
Forever, you'll stay in my heart, yeah
You are my sunshine of my life, oh, yeah
About
“You Are the Sunshine of My Life” is a single from Stevie Wonder’s album Talking Book. It was written and produced by Stevie.
The song topped the Billboard Hot 100 for a week in May 1973. It also became Stevie’s first number-one hit on Billboard’s Easy Listening chart and won a Grammy Award for “Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.”
Q&A
Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning
That song, it’s not only one of my favorites, it has to be the world’s favorite. All the songs reflect Stevie’s life, as far as I’m concerned. He writes so much from his heart. “Sunshine” gave me this inclination of how romantic he could be in expressing his feelings — it could be applied to a young lady, it could be applied to a child, it could be applied to his mother (who he happened to have adored), and friendships.
— Dionne Warwick, New York Times, 2022
‘Sunshine of My Life’ is a favourite in that it deals with the earth. There is an intimate relation, and it also applies to people generally.
— Stevie Wonder, Rolling Stone, 1974