Hold my hand as lover or as friend
& feel united for a while

See yourself in the mirror of my eyes
& tell me what it does to you

Let our heart beats meet
& feel what it does to me

Let us walk like a tandem
To get where it could be we

I'd like to be the kind of friend
That you've been to me
I'd like to be the special help that
You've been glad to be.
I know I'm blessed for only God can
make a friend like you
You know just how to cheer me up
whenever I feel blue.
Could I but have one wish fullfilled,
This one only would it be
I'd like to be the kind of friend
You've always been to me.

For the first time in a long lifetime
I'm happy and sure that the future will bring
all the things I'll need to be and feel human

For the first time in a long lifetime
I know what it is to feel sure about myself
as lover and father for a life still to come

For the first time in a long life
I can see the twinkle in a child's eye
and know I will care for a tender family

Whenever I see you as a reflexion in the lake
made of all my tears then I'm happy
'cause then, together with the reflexions
you always will be with me.

Whenever I see you as a shiny sun
twinkling in my tears I know they will dry
'cause even the most beautiful tear
can't hold beauty like I always want to see.

The soft caress of a lover's touch
over every inch of your skin
each nerve alights to that brush
burning from the joy within

Passion's awaking like fire
body totally ablaze
oblivious to all of the others
held rapturously in that gaze

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