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LOVE IS ALL WE CAN'T LEAVE BEHIND


Love and love is all we have left
A baby cries on a doorstep
Love is all we have left
Love and love is all we have left
The only thing that can be kept
Love is all we have left. LOVE IS ALL WE HAVE LEFT
 
And love is not the easy thing
The only baggage you can bring
And love is not the easy thing
The only baggage you can bring
Is all that you can't leave behind. WALK ON
 
What are we going to do now it's all been said?
No new ideas in the house, and every book's been read…
And I can love, and I can love
And I know that the tide is turning 'round. ACROBAT
 
Hold on, and hold on tightly
Hold on, and don't let go of my love
The storms will pass, it won't be long now
This love will last, this love will last forever. DROWNING MAN
 
We're still building and burning down love
Burning down love
And when I go there
I go there with you
It's all I can do. WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME
 
I'm here without a name
In the palace of my shame
I said love, rescue me. LOVE RESCUE ME
 
So you never knew love
Until you crossed the line of grace
And you never felt wanted
Till you'd someone slap your face
So you never felt alive
Until you'd almost wasted away. PLEASE
 
Oh and when all is lost
When all is lost we find out what remains. SUMMER OF LOVE
 
Touch me, take me to that other place
Reach me, I know I’m not a hopeless case
What you don't have you don't need it now
What you don't know you can feel it somehow. BEAUTIFUL DAY
 
I am you and you are mine
Love makes nonsense of space
And time, will disappear. MIRACLE DRUG
 

One love… One life with each other: sisters, brothers
One life, but we're not the same
We get to carry each other, carry each other. ONE
 
When the lights go out
And you throw yourself about in the darkness where you learn to see
When the lights go out
Don't you ever doubt
The light that we can really be. THE BLACKOUT
 

When you think you’re done, you’ve just begun
Love is bigger than anything in its way. LOVE IS BIGGER THAN ANYTHING IN ITS WAY
 
If there is a light you can’t always see
If there is a world we can’t always be
If there is a dark that we shouldn’t doubt
And there is a light, don’t let it go out. SONG FOR SOMEONE & 13 (THERE IS A LIGHT)
 
I’m in the black, can’t see or be seen…
When I was all messed up and I heard opera in my head
Your love was a light bulb hanging over my bed. ULTRA VIOLET (LIGHT MY WAY)
 
The door is open
You're standing there, you let me in
Gloria, in te domine
Gloria, exultate
Oh, Lord, if I had anything, anything at all
I'd give it to you. GLORIA
 
I fall with you
And when you're falling down
Is when I hit the ground
I fall with you. I FALL DOWN
 
Like faith needs a doubt
Like a freeway out
Need your love. HAWKMOON 269
 
I have a lover, a lover like no other…
Shows me colours when there's none to see
Gives me hope when I can't believe
That for the first time I feel love. THE FIRST TIME
 
We're at a place called Vertigo
Lights go down and all I know
Is that you give me something
I can feel your love teaching me how
Your love is teaching me how, how to kneel. VERTIGO
 
I was born a child of grace…
I'm alive
I'm being born
I just arrived, I'm at the door
Of the place I started out from
And I want back inside. ALL BECAUSE OF YOU
 
Only love, only love can leave such a mark
But only love, only love can heal such a scar. MAGNIFICENT



It's not if I believe in love
But if love believes in me
Oh, believe in me. MOMENT OF SURRENDER
 
Every day I die again, and again I'm reborn
Every day I have to find the courage
To walk out into the street
With arms out
Got a love you can't defeat
Neither down or out
There's nothing you have that I need. BREATHE
 
Hey now
Do you know my name?
Hey now
Or where I’m going?
If I can’t get an answer
In your eyes I see it
In your eyes alone
I see the lights of home. LIGHTS OF HOME
 
You've got to leave it behind
All that you fashion
All that you make
All that you build
All that you break
All that you measure
All that you steal
All this you can leave behind. WALK ON
 
My father is a rich man, he wears a rich man's cloak
He gave me the keys to his kingdom (coming)
Gave me a cup of gold
He said “I have many mansions
And there are many rooms to see”
But I left by the back door
And I threw away the key…
For the first time, I feel love. THE FIRST TIME
See Themes
​Broken Heart
Grace
Love The Higher Law
True Treasure
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Essense Made Manifest
Force of Love & Logic
​Imagination & God
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