Saturday | 02/17/2024
- iraschulte623
- Feb 17, 2024
- 1 min read
This is a song that many or even most of you might not know. It’s entitled “If We Only Have Love” and it was the final song in a show performed off-Broadway in 1968. The show was called “Jacques Brel is Alive and Living in Paris.” Brel was a brilliant Belgian composer, who wrote this song and whole show both in French and English! He unfortunately died at 49 years of age in 1978.
I’m going to quote a few of the lyrics as they still seem so current.
“If we only have love, we can reach those in pain,
We can heal all their wounds. We can use their own names,
If we only have love, we can melt all the guns,
And give the new world to our daughters and sons,
If we only have love, then Jerusalem stands.
And then death has no shadows, there are no foreign lands”
With the atrocities and genocide taking place in Palestine and Jerusalem could this be any more real today.
Tomorrow we will be discussing a song originally performed by the late, great Louie Armstrong but this will not be his rendition. It’s by two young women and that story makes it even more emotionally layered.
Monday when we return to FB, we will focus on something I’ve developed called my 5 E’s, which is intended to help anyone trying bro become more tolerant, inclusive, empathetic to everyone.
Please join us!
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