Only Love

Words and music copyright ©1980 by Howard Ashby Kranz

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1. At last you’re waiting, breathless, for the music to begin

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The thrill at last engulfs you, through your spirit, through your skin.

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And still when the performance ends, the night comes crashing in

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And only love can save you from yourself.

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2. You’ve searched the raging earth to let the flame within you burn

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And gazing on a calm wide sea, you felt the heavens turn.

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It has taken all your knowledge, all your courage just to learn

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That only love can free you from yourself.

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Bridge: And it’s so vain to count the cost

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Cause there’s no gain that’s worth the loss

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3.. You weave together threads, you hope they keep you from the cold

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You bind together words, and so another story’s told.

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You put together hearts, the world is yours to hold

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And only love can give you to yourself. Only love