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Sway With Me

(Men, addressing Love:)Come and sway toward me, appear to us like a bright full moon.Have mercy on us, take us on a journey, fill the whole universe with lovers.

(Women, personifying Love:)I’m coming, and in my heart I’m carrying the dreams of all yearsAnd the happiness in my eyes I will find in everyone’s eyesI’m coming (and sorrow has left), I’m coming (and love can. . . ). . .win, and make our hearts embrace tomorrow with desire.

We came to tell sorrow to leave us, we came to make love our path,Step by step, song by song, we came to surround the world with our desire.

O night with a heart returning to make all hearts happyMy heart is coming hoping to love, to stay up late, to melt awayMy heart (is melting with love), drawing (braids of desire).Laugh, sing in our night and weave a dress for happiness.

c© Larry Denenberg 2003 Mar 19