

When I’m awake, which swims, and also I believe that youĪre trustworthy as the sidewalk which leads me to I think I am bicycling across an Africa of green and white fields The big blue sea, so shiny so deep and so unlike us In the wind, when you’re near, a wind that blows from Kid searches for a goat I am crazier than shirttails

Inside a bottle, thank goodness! I love you as a For this we live a thousand years įor this we love, and we live because we love, we are not Through which he saw her head, connecting with That will solve a murder case unsolved for yearsīecause the murderer left it in the snow beside a window I love you as a sheriff searches for a walnut “When Love Arrives” by Sarah Kay & Phil Kaye “Queen Anne’s Lace” by William Carlos Williams “I Wanted to Make Myself like the Ravine” by Hannah Gamble “I Wanna Be Yours” by John Cooper Clarkeġ7. There we two, content, happy in being together, speaking little, perhaps not a word. Of a youth who loves me and whom I love, silently approaching and seating himself near, that he may hold me by the hand,Ī long while amid the noises of coming and going, of drinking and oath and smutty jest,
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Of a crowd of workmen and drivers in a bar-room around the stove late of a winter night, and I unremark’d seated in a corner, Your force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new. You are sand, wind, sun, and burning sky,
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You taught me how to live without the rain. “Sonnet 116” by William ShakespeareĪ post shared by pavana reddy on at 9:14am PDTġ4. That then I scorn to change my state with kings. (Like to the lark at break of day arisingįrom sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven’s gate įor thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,įeatured like him, like him with friends possessed,ĭesiring this man’s art and that man’s scope When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,Īnd trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, “When a Boy Tells You He Loves You” by Edwin Bodney

My need for gloss and grouting which keepsĪs Atlas did the sky. To my brickwork insulates my faulty wiring Which knows what time and weather are doing The money goes which deals with dentistsĪnd postcards to the lonely which upholdsĪnd maintenance is the sensible side of love, Which answers letters which knows the way You are supposed to make up your own.The milkman which remembers to plant bulbs The way I sing it in the story is just MY version. If lots of people send me their versions, I will not be able to put them all up, but I would like to hear them even if I can’t put them on the site. If you send me your version, either as a tape or an audio file or a MR3 file, I will try to put it up in the LOVE YOU page. I would like to put different versions of the song up on this site, now that the site has sound on it. So far it has sold about 15,000,000 copies.Įverybody makes up their own song for this book. In fact, it turned out that parents buy it for grandparents and grandparents buy it for parents and kids buy it for everybody and everybody buys it for kids.Īs a matter of fact, everybody buys it for everybody. This is supposed to be a children’s book. It is selling in retirement communities where kids are illegal. It is selling very well in retirement communities in Arizona. One day the publisher called up and said “This is very strange. My regular publisher felt that it was not really a kid’s book and I ended up doing it with another publisher. Out popped Love You Forever, pretty much the way it is in the book. It was very strange having a song in my head that I couldn’t sing.įor a long time it was just a song but one day, while telling stories at a big theatre at the University of Guelph, it occurred to me that I might be able to make a story around the song. For a long time I had it in my head and I couldn’t even sing it because every time I tried to sing it I cried. I made that up after my wife and I had two babies born dead.
