YOU
DON'T KNOW WHAT LOVE IS
(Cassandra
Wilson)
Don
Raye/Gene DePaul
You
don't know what love is
until
you learn the meaning of the blues
until
you lost the love you had to lose,
you
don't know what love is.
You
don't know how lips hurt
until
you've kissed and had to pay the cost,
until
you've left the heart you have lost.
You
don't know what love is.
Do
you know how lost hearts feel(s)?
A
part of reminiscence,
And
how lips the taste of tears.
Loose
their taste for kissing.
You
don't know how hearts burn
for
love that can not live yet
and
never dies,
til
you've faced each down
Sleepless
eyes.
You
don't know what love is.
Do
you know how lost I feel(s)?
A
part of reminiscence
and
how lips the taste of tears.
Loose
the taste for kissing.
You
don't know how hearts burn
for
love that can not live yet
and
never dies, til you face each down
sleeplesss
eyes.
You
don't know what love is.
You
don't know what love is. |
SKY
AND SEA (BLUE IN GREEN)
(Cassandra
Wilson)
Miles
Davis
Tossed between
the sky and sea,
we'll sail
until we find the harbor
lights.
Our life is but a dream
of blue in green although
it seems
the end draws nearer
with each passing day.
We'll always sail
this way until
we find our home. |
NATURE
BOY
(Sarah
Vaughan / Abbey Lincoln)
Eden
Ahbez
There was a boy,
a very strange, rejected
boy,
they said he wandered very
far, very far,
over lands and sea,
a little shy
and sad of eyes,
but very wise was he.
And then one day
a magic day he passed my
way
and we spoke of many things
fulls and kings
and this said to me:
"The greatest thing
you ever learn
it's just to love
and belove in return". |
DOWN
HERE BELOW
(Abbey
Lincoln)
Down here below...
the winds of change are
blowing
through the weary night.
I prayed my soul will find
me
shining in the morning light,
Down here below.
Down here below,
it´s not so easy
just to be.
Sometimes I'm really
all at sea.
You made me
when the world was new
and skies were blue...
and I'm here
because there's you.
They say I'll never see
your face
and we're out there from
your grace,
the one you fashioned
with your hand,
and scattered all across
the land,
but I am happy just to know
that you must go
where I must go
for there are winds and
scars to show
livin' here down here
below
...
Down here below,
the setting sun is shining
on the melancholy mood.
I hear the distant thunder
and the crying of the blue
down where below
I'm yours alone:
the only one to call my
own
the only one I've ever known
Sometimes I see you
standing there
Sometimes I'm freer.
And you are here,
down here with me,
you made me just the way
a hear,
or less feeling, eyes to
see
a strange embrace, a simple
hand,
a spirit free that says:
"I can",
and I'm happy just to know
that you will go
where I must go,
for you send me this I know
living here, down here below,
living here, down here below,
living here, down here below. |
