"You are so beautiful to me" three times, then "can't you see?" then the same three words again. The song has three lines of lyrics. That is not a limitation. It is a discipline. Billy Preston and Bruce Fisher wrote something that cannot be elaborated because elaboration would dilute it. The song understands that the most honest things you ever say to another person are usually the shortest. "You're everything I hoped for, you're everything I need" -- the second verse does not expand. It just confirms. The structure mirrors the content: a love so elemental that saying it once is already too many times, and saying it three times is still not enough.

Billy Preston recorded it first in 1974 on his album The Kids and Me, a gospel-raised organist who spent years backing the Beatles and the Stones.