"Beginnings" is a song written by Robert Lamm for the rock band Chicago and recorded for their debut album The Chicago Transit Authority, released in 1969. Lamm also provided lead vocals. The song was the band's second single but failed to chart on its initial release.

After the band's success with subsequent singles, "Beginnings" was re-released in June 1971, backed with "Colour My World". Both sides became U.S. radio hits, and the combined single climbed to number seven on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. "Beginnings" reached number one on the U.S. Easy Listening chart.^[1]

The distinctive acoustic guitar was originally played by Chicago's guitarist Terry Kath. In concert, Lamm has played guitar for the song, though he is primarily known as the group's keyboard player.

The uncut album version clocked in at 7:55. The original single version was cut to just under three minutes, leaving only a fraction of the climactic second half. A later edit of just over six minutes for subsequent compilation albums restores much of the second half. One notable exception is the compilation The Heart of Chicago 1967-1997, which features the original full-length version of the tune.

In 1974, "Beginnings" was covered by pianist Gene Harris on his Blue Note album Astral Signal. This is one of the very few times Harris can be heard as lead vocalist.

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Beginnings

When I'm with you, it doesn't matter where we are,

Or what we're doing. I'm with you, that's all that matters.

Time passes much too quickly when we're together laughing.

I wish I could sing it to you, oh no,

I wish I could sing it to you.

Mostly I'm silent.

Never think about words to say.

When I kiss you, I feel a thousand different feelings.

I'm covered with chills all over my body.

And while I feel them, I quickly try to decide which one

I should try to put into words, oh no,

Try to put into words.

Mostly I'm silent.

Only the beginning of what I want to feel forever.

Only the beginning. Only just the start.

I've got to get you into my life.

Got to get you next to me.

Only the beginning. Only just the start.

-- song written by  Robert Lamm

Nothing like the miracle of Love in the beginning. Intense. Explosive. Nature at its finest. You are Adam & Eve & no one else exists. (Or hardly...)  Its the Golden Age. You've rediscovered Eden.

I haven't the heart to tell you what happens over time but so what? You either move into another kind of relationship or you leave & pursue other "beginnings" or you somehow make the effort to recapture the past & not relive it necessarily but recapitulate in a natural way how it is, past present future. Marriage, for example, is no love affair. But the affair can continue if you court each other, become friends as well as lovers, become brother & sister but preserve the erotic excitement even after many years into old age where affection & companionship can be as beautiful as when the young stud & his luscious lady were riding high & wild.