To hear love’s words, let love approach
Love is free and not ruled by our will
Love transforms, and love heals
Love seduces and cannot be seduced

The great goal is love, the rest is silence
How can this force that moves the world
And keeps the stars in their places
Be at once so creative and so devastating?

Don’t expect when you love
To be loved in return the same way
Love is an act of faith, not an exchange
We love, because we need love

Love is there for all and everyone
Through the vales of sorrow
Through the tears that flow
Through loneliness that crushes everything

Love is only a word until someone arrives
To give it a meaning
Yet, when love does not appear
Don’t give up and try to remember
its always the last key on the ring
the one that you almost had lost
the one that you nearly forgot
That opens the door to love

Love is there through the vales of sorrow
Through tears and through loneliness

Love speaks its own language
In its own ecstasies and agonies
And the person that left you
Did not take the sun with him

With every farewell comes a hidden hope
The heart is open to love
and to surrender to it without fear
there is nothing more to lose

To hear love’s words, let love approach
Love is free and not ruled by our will
Love transforms and heals and
Love seduces and cannot be seduced

Don’t give up and try to remember
its always the last key on the ring
the one that you almost had lost
the one that you nearly forgot
That opens the door to love

©2015 Ute Lemper/Paulo Coelho

 

Guitar: John Benthal
Piano: Clifford Carter
Bass: Steve Millhouse
Percussion: Dafer Tawil, Jamshied Sharifi, Todd Turkisher
Wind Synth & Sound effects: Jamshied Sharifi
Oud: Mavrothi Kontanis, John Benthal
Arabic Violin: Dafer Tawil
Flute Section
– Bass Flute: Kathleen Nestor
– Alto Flute: Susan Palma
– Flute: Elizabeth Mann
String Section
– Cello: Dave Egger
Richard Locker
– Violin: Rachael Golub
Joyce Hammann
Sean Carney
Laura Seaton-Finn
–  Viola: Lois Martin
Louise Schulman
String Arrangement: Gil Goldstein