Robert, Would you post the lyrics to The Love of My Life? I like to figure out the meaning of your songs and there are a few words I am not sure about in that one. Thanks.
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Robert, the lyrics you have written for The Love of My Life intrigue me so. I was reading Practicing the Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle and I wrote down this quote about the same time that I became aware of your song.
"Relationships are not here to make you happy or fulfilled. If you continue to pursue the goal of salvation through a relationship, you will be disillusioned again and again. But if you accept that the relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy, then the relationship will offer you salvation, and you will be aligning yourself with the higher consciousness that wants to be born into this world."
If this is true, it changes everything about the way a person should experience and view relationships. What, in the past, would be considered a failure or a disaster or turmoil can now be understood as an advace learning experience providing a sort of evolution for the soul. How did you become attuned to this thinking? You are the only lyricist that I am aware that writes about such things. Bravo!
THE LOVE OF MY LIFE
Robert Lamm / Jim Vallance © 1998 Blue Infinity Music/Almo Testatime
so many people with a story to tell
the world’s full of victims
and if you asked them what they’re trying to sell
they want to drag you down with them
they want to drag you down with them
chorus:
in the end the love we live with
is the love that we wait for
and the waiting cuts like a knife
in the end the love we hoped for
is the love that we learned with
looking for the love of my life
the love of my life
there’s not a day when i don’t open my eyes
random moments of fashion
your heart will guide me when my head tells me lies
I’ve still got the passion
you know I’ve still got the passion
bridge:
nevermind tomorrow
it’s only a gypsie's fantasy
time we have is borrowed
only wanting what we’re needing
needing only what we have today
alt chorus:
got to treasure every moment
every moment is a good time
and I never have nothing to hide
got a sense of someone who cares
automation is deadly
looking for the love of my life
the love of my life
Thanks. There is a lot of wisdom in those words.