Remarks:
“Do You Know Where You’re Going To” had been kicking around at Motown for years. Thelma Houston was about to do it as a single but then it was given to Diana Ross to use as the theme song for her film “Mahogany” (1975). Thus the strange two-part name. It became one of those theme songs that are more famous than the film itself.
The video above was made from scenes from “Mahogany” where Ross is apparently getting her Donyale Luna on.
In 1998 Mariah Carey did a terrible cover of this song. I did not even know about it till I ran into it on YouTube, which has a video of her singing it on British television.
Lyrics:
Do you know where you’re going to?
Do you like the things that life is showing you
Where are you going to?
Do you know…?
Do you get
What you’re hoping for
When you look behind you
There’s no open doors
What are you hoping for?
Do you know…?
Once we were standing still in time
Chasing the fantasies
That filled our minds
You knew how I loved you
But my spirit was free
Laughin’ at the questions
That you once asked of me
Do you know where you’re going to?
Do you like the things that life is showing you
Where are you going to?
Do you know…?
Now looking back at all we’ve planned
We let so many dreams
Just slip through our hands
Why must we wait so long
Before we’ll see
How sad the answers
To those questions can be
Do you know where you’re going to?
Do you like the things that life is showing you
Where are you going to?
Do you know…?
Do you get
What you’re hoping for
When you look behind you
There’s no open doors
What are you hoping for?
Do you know…?
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