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You Are Love

by Jerome Kern

on Life Upon the Wicked Stage (2002), Show Boat (A London Studio Cast Recording) (2013), Showboat (Music Theater Of Lincoln Center Recording)

Once a wandering ne'er-do-well
Just a vagrant roaming fellow
I went my way
Life was just a joke to tell

Like a lonely Punchinello
My role was gay
But I knew the joke was aimless
Time went on, I liked the game less

For you see
Somewhere lurked a spark divine
And I kept wondering whether mine
Would come to me

Then my fortune turned and I found you
Here you are with my arms around you
You will never know what you meant to me
You're the prize that heaven has sent to me

Here's a bright and beautiful world anew
Wrapped up in you

You are love
Here in my arms where you belong
And here you will stay, I'll not let you away
I want day after day with you

You are spring
Bud of romance unfurled
You taught me to see
One truth forever true

You are love
Wonder of all the world
Where you go with me
Heaven will always be