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If the River Can Bend

Gill Washington Elton John, Song Lyrics Allspirit , , , , 0 Comment

Music by Elton John Lyrics by Bernie Taupin
Available on the album The Big Picture

I don’t know what to say
I don’t know where the light shines
It’s a grey dawn rising on a green hill
And there’s so much behind us

I don’t know where we go
I sure feel there’s something out there
There’s a great awakening and a new morning
And your spirit’s pounding loud and clear

If the river can bend
I’ll find you waiting
Home at last from the wild sea
All the twists and turns
We’ve made together
All the boats you rocked
With your harmony
If the river can bend
If the river can bend
If the river can bend
If the river can bend

Come and embrace the struggle
But win or lose we live here
Build a new beginning on an old rock
Breathe deep of the sweet fresh air

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Late Have I Loved You

Gill Washington Poems, St. Augustine , , 0 Comment

Late have I loved You
O beauty every ancient, ever new!
Late have I loved You
And behold,
You were within; and I without,
and without I sought You.
And deformed I ran after these forms
of beauty You have made.
You were with me
And I was not with You.
Those things held me back from You,
things whose only being
was to be in You.
You called; You cried;
and You broke through my deafness.
You flashed; You shone;
and you chased away my blindness.
You became fragrant;
and I inhaled and sighed for You.
I tasted
and now hunger and thirst
for You.
You touched me;
and I burned for Your embrace.

~St. Augustine