One More Song

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One More Song
lyrics and melody © 2007 by Dr. H. Paul Shuch
Melody and structure inspired by Great Idea for a Song, © 2003 by Timothy F. Crist
(melancholy, with the speed, sarcasm, and bitterness of the original significantly diminished)

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Do you remember on the evening that we met,
The way we gazed into each other's eyes?
We both said we would never look back with regret,
Or hide behind a barricade of lies.
I still recall the magic feeling at the start
Of finally finding someplace to belong.
And if your name rhymed with 'the one who holds my heart,'
I think that I could write you one more song.

Do you remember on the afternoon we wed,
The effervescence of the azure sky?
I don't so much recall specific words we said
As knowing that our love could never die.
Are you abandoning the promises we made?
Do you no longer feel that we belong?
If I could rhyme your name with 'sharper than a blade,'
I think that I could write you one more song.

BRIDGE 1:

I know that people grow, but I could never
Imagine that the two of us would end.
This must be some new meaning to 'forever'
That I cannot begin to comprehend.

Do you remember waking up within my arms,
And facing every morning with a smile?
Have you forgotten being sheltered from all harm,
Safe here with me, if only for a while?
That life disintegrated right before our eyes.
How could we both have gotten it so wrong?
If only your name rhymed with 'dream that never dies,'
I think that I could write you one more song.

[Instrumental Solo]

BRIDGE 2:

You know that people grow, but did you ever
Imagine that the two of us would end?
This must be some new meaning to 'forever'
That neither one of us can comprehend.

Do you remember a forever kind of love,
That helped us to be more than we had been?
Could you not feel us being guided from above,
And shown a world that we had never seen?
That world evaporated when you walked away
Explaining, 'twenty years is far too long.'
And if your name rhymed with 'I died inside that day,'
I think that I could write you one more song.
I think that I could write you one more song.
I think that I could write you one last song.

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