Arms Wide Open Paroles

Once believed that love was romance
Just a chance
I even thought that love was for the lucky and the beautiful

I once believed that love was a momentary bliss but love is more than this

All you ever wanted was my attention
All you ever wanted was love from me
All you ever wanted was my affections
To sit here at you feet

And tell you:
What does love look like
Is the question I've been pondering
What does love look like
If all of life comes down to love then tell me:

What does love look like
Is the question I've been pondering If all of life comes down to life then love has to be more than sentiment
More than selfishness and selfish gain

And then I saw him there
Hanging on a tree
Looking at me

I saw him there
Hanging on a tree
Looking at me
He was looking at me looking at him staring through me

I could not escape those beautiful eyes
And I began to weep and weep

He had arms wide open
Heart exposed
Arms wide open
He was pleading, pleading

Loves definition
Loves definition was looking at me
Looking at him
Hanging on a tree
I began to weep and weep and weep

This is how I know what love is
This is how I know what love is
This is how I know what love is
This is how I know what love is
This is how I know what love is

And as I sat there
Weeping, crying
Those beautiful eyes full of desire and love

And he said to me:
You shall love me
You shall love me
You shall love me
You shall love me
You shall love me
You shall love me

Arms wide open
Heart exposed
Arms wide open
Pleading sometimes pleading

He said:
You shall love me
You shall love me
You shall love me
You shall love me
You shall love me

If anybody's looking love
In all the wrong places
If you've been searching for love
Come to me
Come to me

Take up your cross
Deny yourself
Forget your fathers house and run
Run with me

For you were made
For someone greater, someone bigger
So follow me and you'll come alive


(Thanks to Jim for these lyrics)