Somebody Else's Happiness

Is it not beautiful ?

It is so very beautiful!

They are so beautiful in their happiness

Often I ask myself

What has happened?

That the reminders of the most beautiful moments of somebody else's life

And the memories of somebody else's happiness

Have landed in a junk shop.

I ask myself with a little bit of fear in my heart

Will the decisive moments of my own life

Captured in photographs

Also be thrown away some day?

Because I do not matter so much anymore

To anyone.

But then again, we really are not that important

Looking at it from a larger perspective. 

Photograph of an unknown couple found in a junk shop in East London.

Entitled by me " Somebody Else's Happiness"

IF I SING YOU A LOVE SONG

IF I SING YOU A LOVE SONG

WILL YOU ALWAYS REMEMBER

WILL YOU HEAR IT IN A LONELY NIGHT

WHEN I AM NOT AROUND

IF I SING YOU A LOVE SONG

WILL YOU HEAR IT FOREVER

TO REMIND YOU HOW MUCH I CARED

AND HOW I NEEDED YOU

LOVE SONGS LAST LONGER THAN LOVERS EVER DO

SO  BABY LET ME SING A LOVE SONG FOR YOU

LOVE SONGS DON'T LEAVE YOU

BUT LOVERS OFTEN DO

OH BABY I AM AFRAID IT COULD HAPPEN YOU TO ME AND YOU

IF I SING YOU A LOVE SONG

LET IT ALWAYS BE WITH YOU

WHEN THE OTHERS HAVE GONE AWAY

LET IT STILL BE THERE

OH OH OH LONELY NIGHTS WHEN I AM NOT AROUND,

BABY IT'S THE LOVE SONG YOU'LL ALWAYS REMEMBER ON LONELY NIGHTS,

I SING YOU A LOVE SONG TO KEEP YOU CLOSE TO ME

LONELY NIGHTS WHEN I AM NOT AROUND

BABY IT"S A LOVE SONG YOU 'LL ALWAYS REMEMBER

SO BABY LET ME SING YOU A LOVE SONG TO KEEP YOU CLOSE TO ME

( Bonnie Tyler in the 1980's)