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Thread #21276   Message #226580
Posted By: Clinton Hammond2
11-May-00 - 03:10 PM
Thread Name: Mother's Day Songs
Subject: Lyr Add: I Would I Were^^
Bravo!

Lemme share a song I do... But I didn't write it... James Keelaghan wrote it as a love song to no one in particular... the first time I heard him do it I asked him if he'd mind me covering it, it was so fantastic... he said sure, but he wanted to know who I was gonna sing it for... The person I though of who most needed a love song sang to her was my mum... She's had it pretty rough.. 2 bad marrages, and a rotten kid!!!! LOL!!

I Would I Were

I would I were
A robin's song
Born upon the wind
Lilting light
Through morning bright
Soaring from the limb
And if I were that robin's song
I'd soar without delay
And be the first thing
That you'd hear
As you begin your day

I wish the Northern
Lights were of
A fabric apprehended
That from these earthbound
Human hands
Those lights could be suspended
I wish the Northern Lights were mine
To hem and sew and weave
I'd make a cloak
For you to wear
To keep you from the breeze

Oh..... All of the questions
All of the stars in the sky
Oh..... Never the answers
Always the wondering why....

I wish my hand
Could touch the place
Within your heart that's hidden
And go to you
As if some ghost
That, by you, had been bidden
And though this world is touch and go
I cannot but believe
Of all the things
That touch us first
Love is the last to leave

Of all the things
That touch us first......

{~`