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Chris Rea is the fourth (self-titled) studio album by the artist of the same name, released in 1982.

"If You Choose To Go" Personnel:

Guitars & Slide guitars: Chris Rea

Percussion: Ray Cooper

Drums: Dave Mattacks

Bass: Dave Paton

The production here by Rea and Jon Kelly takes nothing in the music industry into account. His romantic vision, his understated execution, and his unflinchingly honest lyrics reveal a young man who could have been a huge pop star on this side of the Atlantic if the Yanks had only gotten a hold of him before everything changed a year or two later. As it stands, he made his name in the British Isles largely from the beginning. Tracks such as "If You Choose to Go," with its lovely slide run and backing chorus humming over the heartbroken lyric -- this is what Paul Kelly always attempted but was too wimpy to pull off -- are in the pocket of laid-back tearjerkers with class and sheen. And, of course, there's "Every Beat of My Heart," covered by virtually everyone from Eric Clapton to Kelly himself, and considered once by Van Morrison. With a gorgeous string arrangement by Andrew Powell, one can picture the late Jim Reeves singing this song as easily as Jennifer Warnes and Joe Cocker. There's also the funk-lite number "Do It for Your Love" that, despite it's slim, funky riff, stands as a great pop song that Boz Scaggs would have killed to have written. There simply isn't a weak track on this slick little masterpiece that established Rea as one of our quirkiest, most commercially viable, if obscure, cult pop icons.

There's a street outside my window

There's a light outside my door

There's a road straight through this old town

There's a boat on every shore

There's a promise down the freeway

But there is no guarantees

There are dreads on every ocean

There are storms on every sea...

..If you choose to go

Now I've been out upon that ocean

Sometimes not even past my waistline

And I screamed at what I saw

Many times along that freeway

Returning sometimes beat

Ah there are dreams out on that ocean

There are storms on every sea...

..If you choose to go

Plenty of places, plenty of things to see

Plenty of faces, plenty of ways to be

..If you choose to go...