Mark J. Halliday Poet Lyric

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I'm trying to make a song which feels like a combination of the Beatles song Something, The Association's songs Cherish and Never My Love, and The Twelfth Of Never first recorded by Johhny Mathis.  The question indirectlyposed in beginning of the chorus actually does have an answer.  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints does believe that husbands and wive, and other family members across generations, can be united as families in the afterlife (which is what Mormons build Temples for).  I'm not aware of any other religion that has that idea as a doctrine, though I've met individuals who believe that.

Even After We've Passed

Even After We've Passed

Something about you	
Resonates with me.		
It’s hard to describe it;	
I don’t have the words,	
But I know it exists.		
Though it sounds absurd,	
Everything about you		
Resonates with me.		
	
Being around you		
Illuminates me.		
It gives me a reason,		
Hope for tomorrow,		
For more than a season.	
Like love’s afterglow,	
Just staying around you	
Illuminates me.		

(Chorus)
Is there a religion, church or belief,	
That really, really, believes in forever?	
A forever where we could stay together?	
If there isn’t, then what’s the point of believing?	
If there isn’t, then what are we doing here? 

“Till death do us part”	
Is not enough time.		
When I gave you my heart,	
I meant for all time.		
I couldn’t just want you	
The rest of my life.		
Even after we’ve passed,	
You should be my wife.	

Repeat last verse and fade on chorus)

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