It’s a pretty good night

To turn off the lights

And spend some time dreaming alone

Who wouldn’t admire

This burning desire

To explore all that is unknown?

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O’ you beautiful dame

You call out my name

Sending me all the intricate signs

My desires are burned

My heart — it is turned

When music and love combines

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Time is standing still

Her hand guiding my will

Tying me to your charming chain

The night begins to sink

The stars start to blink

Loneliness then loses again

Millions of beauties grace the land

Of them, thousands I have seen

But nobody could match the grace

Of Stephanie from my dreams

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The sun it glitters, the stars they shine

The silver moon it proudly beams

But they don’t come anywhere close

To Stephanie from my dreams

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The bees fly amongst the flowers

A cool breeze floats over a stream

But their charm pales in front

Of Stephanie from my dreams

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On every road that I have walked

Under every cloud that I may seem

There’s no mortal ever born

Like Stephanie from my dreams

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If mystery was a giant ladder

I’d be at the bottom seam

And atop she’d hold her solo crown

The Stephanie from my dreams

I jumped out of my window

Into a whole new realm

There I found a girl

That got me overwhelmed

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Her eyes were deep and magical

Her voice was soothing sweet

Her skin was fair and glowing

And the picture was complete

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I chased her across the land

Followed her through the streams

Pursued her o’er the mountains

Through every vision and dreams

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Then I lost sight of her

I felt dejected, hurt and broke

Reality came back to me

The moment that I awoke

Today I love you because

Yesterday’s a dream

Tomorrow’s uncertain

Today is all the moment that we could gain

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Today I love you because

Yesterday we weren’t born

Tomorrow we’ll be dead

Today is all that we would have had

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Today I love you because

Yesterday I got a reason

Tomorrow I would have more

Today I would love you even if I had none

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Today I love you because

Yesterday I was lost

Tomorrow I’d be complete

Today I take the journey with you

Ask me to die for you

I’ll do that without a thought

But don’t ask me to go away

That I just cannot

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Ask me to die for you

I’ll do it smilingly

But don’t break my precious heart

That I’ve nurtured lovingly

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Ask me to die for you

I would feel no pain

Forgetting you is a tougher

Tougher task for my brain

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Ask me to die for you

That would seem easygoing

But don’t ask me to leave you

My love for you is growing

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Ask me to die for you

Cease my continuing

But don’t ask me to live for you

That I’m already doing

What is there in a love song?
Words on a blank page
Dots in some fine order
Bounded by a boundless cage
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What is there in a love song?
Just one like the other
One speaks of warm romance
Passion and lust in another
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What is there in a love song?
They sound the same to me
Retold with a narrative
In sugar-sweet allegory
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What is there in a love song?
A hundred I can write
Yet not have anything at all
For my little heart’s delight
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What is there in a love song?
Not a thing it does reveal
My heart’s sensitivity
How badly it fails to steal
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What is there in a love song?
That which I cannot see
If you want to know my heart
Just come around and sit with me

Two birds flew swiftly overhead

One was Jane, the other Alfred

Jane chirped loudly, so I heard

“Are we separated from the herd?”

“Don’t worry,” said Alfred, “they will come

Stick with me and you’re always home”

Take my hand and promise me

You won’t ever let go of me

Never ever let my skin erode

Or ever let my head explode

Never let my heart skip a beat

Or let my eyes grow obsolete

Never let me feel a pain

In my knees or in my brain

Let my neck endure no ache

Or ever let my backbone break

Just ensure that there’s no sign

In my body of decline

Still if He sends the Angel of Death

To break my nerves and take my breath

Rip apart my bones and skin

Grab hold of all my love within

Keep it in your heart and preserve

There, for eternity, I will serve

Heal me with your love

Douse the fire in my heart

Like a lovely dove

With a lionheart

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Your free spirit will taste

A raging soul disgraced

By the fear inside

For all the love I hide

Open the doors of glee

Rest your thoughts in me

Let my eyes see again

Everything but pain

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Heal me with your love

Douse the fire in my heart

Like a lovely dove

With a lionheart

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Freeze my ache, hold me

Hug me, jump, enfold me

As my soul’s unfurled

Let me see a blue world

Kiss me, love, embrace

The dark scars on my face

Love me, Love, hold me

Hug me, Love, enfold me

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Heal me with your love

Douse the fire in my heart

Like a lovely dove

With a lionheart

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Send me a ray wrapped in

A box with a card kept in

The deepest dark section

With love and affection

Of your precious, kind heart

Then tell me ‘Make a new start

With this light that I emit

So your heart may now be lit’

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Heal me with your love

Douse the fire in my heart

Like a lovely dove

With a lionheart