If We Only Have Love (Adapted from: Quand On N'a Que l'Amour - 1957) (South-African Version: Om Met Liefde Alleen - 2007) Composer(s): Jacques Brel; Mort Shuman; Eric Blau Performer(s): Elly Stone, Mort Shuman, Shawn Elliott, Alice Whitfield - 1968 Covered by multiple other artists
If we only have love Then tomorrow will dawn And the days of our years Will rise on that morn
If we only have love To embrace without fears We will kiss with our eyes We will sleep without tears
If we only have love With our arms open wide Then the young and the old Will stand at our side
If we only have love Love that's falling like rain Then the parched desert earth Will grow green again
If we only have love For the hymn that we shout For the song that we sing Then we'll have a way out
If we only have love We can reach those in pain We can heal all our wounds We can use our own names
If we only have love We can melt all the guns And then give the new world To our daughters and sons
If we only have love Then Jerusalem stands And then death has no shadow There are no foreign lands
If we only have love We will never bow down We'll be tall as the pines Neither heroes nor clowns
If we only have love Then we'll only be men And we'll drink from the Grail To be born once again
Then with nothing at all But the little we are We'll have conquered all time All space, the sun, and the stars
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