To celebrate the 20th anniversary last year of LeAnn Rimes' song “How Do I Live”, Rimes created a new rearranged version of the song, relabelled as “How Do I Live (Re-Imagined)”. The new version has a much slower tempo and is more stripped back than the original.
[Verse 1]
How do I get through one night without you?
If I had to live without you
What kind of life would that be?
[Pre-Chorus]
Oh, I, I need you in my arms, need you to hold
You're my world, my heart, my soul and if you ever leave
Baby, you would take away everything real in my life
And tell me now
[Chorus]
How do I live without you?
How do I breathe without you?
How do I ever, ever survive?
How do I, how do I live?
[Verse 2]
Without you, there'd be no sun in my sky
There'd be no love in my life
There'd be no world left for me
[Pre-Chorus 2]
Oh, and I, baby, I don't know what I would do
I'd be lost if I lost you, if you ever leave
Baby, you would take away everything real in my life
Ooh, and tell me now
[Chorus]
How do I live without you?
How do I breathe without you?
How do I ever, ever survive?
How do I, how do I live?
How do I live without you?
How do I breathe without you?
How do I ever, ever survive?
Yeah, how do I, oh, how do I live?
How do I live?
Oh, how do I, how do I, how do I
How do I, how do I live?
How do I live?
[Outro]
Oh, how do I live?
How Do I Live (Re-Imagined) was written by Diane Warren.
How Do I Live (Re-Imagined) was produced by Darrell Brown & LeAnn Rimes.
LeAnn Rimes released How Do I Live (Re-Imagined) on Fri Mar 30 2018.
I wanted the arrangement of ‘How Do I Live’ to highlight the vulnerability of Diane’s lyric,“ Rimes explains of the rearrangement, referring to the one and only Diane Warren, who penned the song. It’s more of a spiritual experience singing the song in this new way, a personal prayer.
Via Billboard
I greatly appreciate and adore the original version and all that it has done – that will always exist and never change. I would love for this new arrangement to sit alongside the original as a companion, highlighting what a classic song Diane Warren created.
Via Billboard