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About the song
Title: Rediscovering Emotion: The Timeless Story Behind Barry Manilow – Tryin’ to Get the Feeling Again
There are songs that make you tap your feet, and there are songs that make you stop and think. Barry Manilow – Tryin’ to Get the Feeling Again belongs firmly to the latter category — a song that captures the quiet ache of realizing that love, once alive and radiant, has somehow drifted into distance and silence. It’s not a loud heartbreak or a dramatic farewell; it’s the softer, more painful realization that something precious has faded, and the heart is struggling to bring it back.
Released during the height of Barry Manilow’s remarkable career in the mid-1970s, this song stands as one of his most emotionally honest and introspective performances. Written by David Pomeranz, its lyrics explore a universal truth — that love isn’t always lost because of anger or betrayal, but sometimes simply because time, routine, and familiarity wear away the spark. Barry Manilow – Tryin’ to Get the Feeling Again turns that quiet loss into art, with every word and note dripping with sincerity.
Manilow’s delivery is what makes this song unforgettable. His voice doesn’t cry out for sympathy; instead, it trembles with quiet longing and deep reflection. The orchestral arrangement rises and falls like a tide — soft piano lines, gentle strings, and that unmistakable swelling chorus — all coming together to create a soundscape that feels both grand and deeply personal. There’s no bitterness here, only the human desire to reconnect with what once felt effortless.
What makes the song so enduring is how it speaks to anyone who has looked across a dinner table or shared a quiet moment and wondered where the feeling went. It’s not about endings — it’s about hope. It’s about memory. It’s about trying. And in that effort, in that very act of reaching back toward love, Barry Manilow – Tryin’ to Get the Feeling Again becomes a song not just about loss, but about the courage to feel again.
Even decades later, it remains one of those rare songs that still resonates — not because it’s nostalgic, but because it’s true.