| English Translation by Anne-Marie de Grazia
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IF WE ONLY HAVE LOVE | WHEN ONE ONLY HAS LOVE |
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If we only have love | When one only has love |
Then tomorrow will dawn | As a give and take |
And the days of our years | At the dawn of the great journey |
Will rise on that morn | Of this our great love |
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If we only have love | When one only has love |
To embrace without fears | My love, you and I |
We will kiss with our eyes | To make burst with joy |
We will sleep without tears | Every hour of every day |
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If we only have love | When one only has love |
With our arms open wide | To live up to our promises |
Then the young and the old | Without any other riches |
Will stand at our side | Then to believe in it always |
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If we only have love | When one only has love |
Love that's falling like rain | To furnish with wonder |
Then the parched desert earth | And cover with light |
Will grow green again | The blight of the suburbs |
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If we only have love | When one only has love |
For the hymn that we shout | As a sole purpose |
For the song that we sing | As a sole song |
Then we'll have a way out | And sole recourse |
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If we only have love | When one only has love |
We can reach those in pain | To clothe at dawn |
We can heal all our wounds | The poor and the criminal |
We can use our own names | In mantles of velvet |
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If we only have love | When one only has love |
We can melt all the guns | To offer in prayer |
And then give the new world | For the suffering world |
To our daughters and sons | As a modest minstrel |
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If we only have love | When one only has love |
Then Jerusalem stands | To give to those |
And then death has no shadow | Whose only fight |
There are no foreign lands | Is to search for daylight |
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If we only have love | When one only has love |
We will never bow down | To trace a path |
We'll be tall as the pines | And force fate |
Neither heroes nor clowns | At every crossroads |
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If we only have love | When one only has love |
Then we'll only be men | To speak to cannons |
And we'll drink from the Grail | And only a song |
To be born once again | To change the mind of a drum |
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Then with nothing at all | Then without having nothing |
But the little we are | But the strength to love |
We'll have conquered all time | We shall hold in our hands |
All space, the sun, and the stars | My friend, the entire world |