Single $1
Evocative acoustic balladeer
Song Info
Genre
Charts
Peak #649
Peak in subgenre #74
Author
Alan Kim Cochran
Rights
2009 Alan Kim Cochran
Uploaded
August 28, 2009
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.4 MB • 128 kbps • 3:43
Story behind the song
Commentary: May Your Heart Live Forever
A much older friend lost his wife after her prolonged illness. I’d only know them a few years, and so never had seen them in their youth. On display at her funeral was a photo of her – young and pretty, yet with the same tight, confident smile I’d grown to love.
…and the tragedy of it all moved me deeply: To spend perhaps forty years loving and cherishing someone – and then to have them torn from you by the irresistible hand of death! - Leaving you alone and empty.
I pondered this, tearfully, on one of my long trips to Salt Lake City in production of my movie “Bloodstones” – and wrote the gist of this song while driving. It’s rare for me, in that it was written without a guitar in hand – which is my usual approach.
This one’s for the woman in question – Betty. Sometimes good things can come from the most tragic situations.
- Alan Kim Cochran
Lyrics
MAY YOUR HEART LIVE FOREVER
© 2009 Alan Kim Cochran
We met, once upon a spring
The spring of our lives, the spring of our youth
And our hands entwined, in the mysteries of love
And, fulfilling our love, a first child was born
‘May your heart live forever
As it will, as it will, as it will be
And, I shall never forget you
Since you were, since you were, only for me
Since you were, since you were, only for me
Since you were, since you were…
Fall, in our empty nest, we found our love anew
And “I’d never leave you” – so, our hearts were still true
They’re many who might think, you’d fade into night
But in your lover’s eyes, you were as his first sight
‘May your heart live forever
As it will, as it will, as it will be
And, I shall never forget you
Since you were, since you were, taken from me
Since you were, since you were, taken from me
Since you were, since you were…
We met, once upon a spring
The spring of our lives, the spring of our youth
And our hands entwined, in the mysteries of love
And, fulfilling our love, a first child was born
‘May your heart live forever
As it will, as it will, as it will be
And, I shall never forget you, someday
You’ll be, you will be, forever with me
You will be, you will be, forever with me
You will be, you will be…
We met, once upon a spring
The spring of our lives, the spring of our youth…
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