Name: If I Live Long Enough
Duration: P00H04M22S
Description: The song took a long time to write. First, it's finding a good chord, hopefully one you haven't overused. Then another chord to follow and a third to resolve. That's the first verse. Then another chord progression for the chorus. Then, if you want, a bridge, which this song has. Then the words, which can come before or after the music - for me, after.

If I Live Long Enough

from The Simple Son by Chaim Bezalel

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The song took a long time to write. First, it's finding a good chord, hopefully one you haven't overused. Then another chord to follow and a third to resolve. That's the first verse. Then another chord progression for the chorus. Then, if you want, a bridge, which this song has. Then the words, which can come before or after the music - for me, after.

lyrics

If I, if I live long enough
If I, if I live long enough
If I live long enough to learn
What love is, what love is

Love is a little bit like happiness
Chase it and it runs away
Comes upon you when you least expect it
Like manna you collect it day by day

(chorus)

Love is a little bit like sacrifice
Gaining what you give away
Complaining sometimes you're only human
But knowing love will always have its way

(chorus)
Sometimes love is a hunger
Sometimes love is a thirst
But I know our love is stronger
Than even what we had at first

(chorus)

Love is a little like business
Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose
Sometimes you sign on the dotted line
But first you gotta learn how to choose.

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from The Simple Son, released December 8, 2020
words and music by Chaim Bezalel
voice and guitar - Chaim

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Chaim Bezalel Stanwood, Washington

My mother had a collection of 78 rpm records of folk music and I became a folk music lover from a young age. I attended festivals and concerts, sat with Libba Cotten when she sang Freight Train. I learned to pick sitting in Washington Square as a teenager. However, I did not begin writing songs until my 50's. I am also a poet and artist. I live in Wasnhington State and in Israel. ... more

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