Mariah recorded a cover of the 1939 song “My Prayer,” written by Georges Boulanger, Carlos Gomez Barrera and Jimmy Kennedy, during the Music Box sessions but remained unreleased for thirty years. In 2023, to commemorate the album's 30th anniversary, it was included as a bonus track on the digital expanded edition of Music Box.
When the twilight is gone and no songbirds are singing
When the twilight is gone you come into my heart
And here in my heart you will stay while I pray
My prayer is to linger with you
At the end of the day in a dream that's divine
My prayer is a rapture in blue
With the world far away and your lips close to mine
Tonight while our hearts are aglow
Oh tell me the words that I'm longing to know
My prayer and the answer you give
May they still be the same for as long as we live
That you'll always be there at the end of my prayer
Written by Georges Boulanger, Carlos Gomez Barrera, Jimmy Kennedy.
Produced by Walter Afanasieff and Mariah Carey.
