Valentine (intro)

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1. In all the years that we have been together

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with chocolates and sweets I’ve tried to woo,

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the necklaces and rings would number dozens

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the roses that I bought would fill the room.

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But gold and silver tarnish as time passes

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and chocolate melts in an afternoon,

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the roses’ perfume easily disperses

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and they don’t help to demonstrate the permanence

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of what I feel for you.

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2 There ‘s so much that is transient around us,

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relationships can flicker and can die,

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the children comfort, soon they, too, will leave us,

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and all along you have been at my side.

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So I looked around for something that is solid,

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to show you how my love cannot be moved,

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but nothing in a shop could ever help me,

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for thoughts don’t have a hue or form,

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my feelings no material can prove.

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3. And then at last I came to the conclusion,

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the places I was looking were all wrong,

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the proper gift has no material substance,

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so I looked into my heart and found this song.

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For every song once written is immortal,

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and in a song I’ll find it hard to lie.

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So even when I’m called to higher portals,

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you’ll know that from this moment on

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just like my love this song will never die.

(orig. = capo 2nd) (George Papavgeris)