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ALL THE LAUGHTER
All the laughter, all those tears,
All the fun, for all those years.
All the others I caressed:
Good for 18 months at best.
I just knew the day we met,
We were good for years, and yet
It never even crossed my mind
Decades of love would soon be mine.
All the laughter, all those tears,
All the fun, for all those years.
I got your best, you got mine.
Our love has met the test of time.
If we’d both had our druthers.
We both could have married others.
Was it fate, or just kismet,
Left us single till we met?
I don’t know for sure you see,
But I'm for you and you’re for me.
All the laughter, all those tears,
All the fun, for all those years.
I think our story’s just begun.
I look ahead, I see more fun.
I see laughter most of all,
I see tears will seldom fall.
We’ll be together till the end,
our love is strong, it will not bend.
It’s only after death we’ll part.
Until then, you own my heart.
All the laughter, all those tears,
All the fun, for all those years.
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ALL THE LAUGHTER v.1
1. "In The Light of Our Years" (Cole Porter Style)
In the light of our years, where love's vintage appears,
A toast to the laughter, the joy, and the tears.
Through seasons and reasons, love's journey endears,
In the light of our years, my dear.
Verse:
For decades, my love, you've been the muse to my rhyme,
With a love so enduring, it laughs at time.
Each glance and each dance, a memory sublime,
In the love light that never dims, but shines.
Chorus:
All the laughter, the tears,
All the wisdom of years,
In a love that appears
To grow stronger with time, my dear.
In the light of our years,
Where each moment endears,
We're the seers of love's true prime,
In the light of our years.
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All the laughter, all those tears,
All the fun, for all those years.
All the others I caressed:
Good for 18 months at best.
I just knew the day we met,
We were good for years, and yet
It never even crossed my mind
Decades of love would soon be mine.
All the laughter, all those tears,
All the fun, for all those years.
I got your best, you got mine.
Our love has met the test of time.
If we’d both had our druthers.
We both could have married others.
Was it fate, or just kismet,
Left us single till we met?
I don’t know for sure you see,
But I'm for you and you’re for me.
All the laughter, all those tears,
All the fun, for all those years.
I think our story’s just begun.
I look ahead, I see more fun.
I see laughter most of all,
I see tears will seldom fall.
We’ll be together till the end,
our love is strong, it will not bend.
It’s only after death we’ll part.
Until then, you own my heart.
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ALL THE LAUGHTER v. 2
"The Heart's Solemn Vow" (Stephen Sondheim Style)
Verse:
Beneath the facade of every day's play,
Lies the truth of a heart's solemn vow,
In shadows and light, in the calm and the fray,
Our love's story continues now.
Chorus:
Through laughter and tears, through the fun and the fears,
Our love has met time's test, somehow.
In the give and the take, what we make and we break,
It's the heart's solemn vow that we bow.
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HOLD MY HEART
You put my heart on a silver plate,
Cared for mine just like your own.
Never abused, just held on loan.
It was forty years ago you see.
When I found out amazingly
Her I’d picked out for my mate
Put my heart on a silver plate.
Cared for mine just like her own,
Never abused, just held on loan,
Never tried to give it back
Never caused a break or crack
Chorus
You put my heart on a silver plate,
Cared for mine just like your own.
Never abused, just held on loan.
Still she holds it to this day.
So I would just like to say
Honesty, fidelity:
Gifts you freely gave to me,
That I hadn’t had before,.
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HOLD MY HEART
"Silver Plated Dreams" (Cole Porter Style)
Verse:
You placed my heart upon a silver dream,
With care that whispers soft like a stream.
Never a blemish, nor a scheme,
In our silver plated dreams, it seems.
Chorus:
With honesty, fidelity, in gleaming array,
Gifts you've given freely, day by day.
Astounding, confounding, in every way,
These silver plated dreams here to stay.
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When Your Hand Is On My Knee
When your hand’s upon my knee,
no place I would rather be.
Saw it first as we went out,
And I am sure without a doubt:
It doesn’t matter where or when,
Your touch will thrill me once again.
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KNEE
"When You Touch, I Sway" (Stephen Sondheim Style)
Verse:
A touch, a glance, a chance to stay,
In the rhythm of the night, in the light of the day.
Your hand on my knee, in a subtle play,
When you touch, I sway, I cannot stray.
Chorus:
For in your touch, I find my way,
Through the noise, the voice, the fray.
In every gesture, you convey,
When you touch, I sway, under your sway.
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IF OFFERED A CHOICE
Reincarnation.
I’d be surprised
If we’re offered choices
About other lives.
Where we end up,
Not ours to say,
When time comes
For another day
If you’re offered a choice
Please pick me again
Forces,
Karmic, cosmic, vast.
But in case you’re ever asked.
I’d be pleased no end,
If you chose to dance with me again.
CHORUS
If offered a choice, please pick me again.
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IF OFFERED A CHOICE
"Dance With Me, Once More" (Cole Porter Style)
Verse:
In the waltz of the cosmos, in the dance of the stars,
Where fate and chance wear their avatars.
If given the choice, in this grand bazaar,
I'd choose you, my love, by far.
Chorus:
Dance with me, once more, under the moon's glow,
In the reincarnation's ebb and flow.
Karmic, cosmic, in the show,
Dance with me, once more, let our love grow.
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