Tonight I celebrate my love



Tonight I celebrate my love for you
It seems the natural thing to do
Tonight no one’s gonna find us
We’ll leave the world behind us
When I make love to you

Tonight I celebrate my love for you
And hope that deep inside you’ll feel it too
Tonight our spirits will be climbing
To a sky filled up with diamonds
When I make love to you, tonight

Tonight I celebrate my love for you
And that midnight sun is gonna come shining through
Tonight there’ll be no distance between us
What I want most to do, is to get close to you
Tonight

Tonight I celebrate my love for you
And soon this old world will seem brand new
Tonight we will both discover how friends turn into lovers
When I make love to you

Tonight I celebrate my love to you
And that midnight sun is gonna come shining through
Tonight there’ll be no distance between us
What I want most to do, is to get close to you
Tonight I celebrate my love for you


Artist/Album: Peabo Bryson/Roberta Flack

A Leaf At the Mercy of the Breeze


Oh, here we are now, fighting the shovels of dirt
That the world throws upon us
Just as we were getting set to dig our own graves
Oh, just how much more could it have hurt
To let ourselves be honest
About the fears that chain us like slaves?

How can we ever speak about those introspective things
That we both know need to be said
When your hateful words were all I heard?
I can’t give the assurance that doubt never stings
When you can’t get out of your head
The notion that loving you is so absurd

But love is nothing to fear
Though it’s clear your heart is tender, tender, tender
So soon may love appear
You must volunteer to surrender, surrender, surrender

I know it’s hard, I know it’s hard
To be what you need to be
But please, let my love into your heart
Let my love into your heart
Let my love into your heart
And let your heart love me

Oh, here we are now, shielding our sullen eyes
From the beauty of the light
Just as we were beginning to let ourselves see
Don’t take this as some sort of wonderful surprise
To live the lies within our sight
And then pretend that we truly are free

Oh, the boundaries of control have now been crossed
For selfish reasons, now I understand
A leaf at the mercy of the breeze
I took the risk of loving you, but now at what cost?
You fled under such heavy demand
From the mirrors of our insecurities

But love is nothing to fear
Though it’s clear how easy we deceive, deceive, deceive
So soon may love appear
When it is finally here we must believe, believe, believe

I know it’s hard, I know it’s hard
To be what you need to be
But please, let my love into your heart
Let my love into your heart
Let my love into your heart
And let your heart love me

When the whole picture blurs and becomes disguised in disarray
Will I know the difference between giving up and walking away?
And do I have the strength to walk away?

Love is nothing to fear
It’s so sincere in its guarantee, guarantee, guarantee
I’ve made sorrow a career
But it must be clear that forgiveness is for me, for me, for me

And I know it’s hard, I know it’s hard
To be what I need to be
But please, let my love into your heart
Let my love into your heart
Let my love into your heart
And let your heart love me