We Are Love - Reena Esmail (composer) / Melissa Studdard (lyricist)

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If I ask you what love is,
can you answer me together?
Can you gather the starlight from your laughter,
give song to the small, shy birds flying through your heart?
If I ask you what love is,
can you answer me together?
Can you rise to the sunset’s shoulder,
join each other in shimmer?
If I ask you what love is,
can you answer me together?
Because joy is a question that we answer with wildflowers and song
And song is a wing circling the wide throat of love
And love is a wind we travel to meet ourselves in each other
We are love
We meet ourselves in each other
Because joy is a window that has opened itself to our voices
And song is a shelter for hearts that have shattered like stars into light
And love is a map we study to find ourselves in each other
We are love
We find ourselves in each other
We must answer you together
For the answer is together
Because joy is a half note in the lung of a humming child
And song is an echo left by the swans that flew from our tongues
And love is a homecoming where we meet ourselves in each other
We are love
Here is where we meet ourselves in each other
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Music: Reena Esmail
Lyrics: Melissa Studdard
Choir:
Soprano - Ayana Haviv (solo), Graycen Gardner, Harriet Fraser, Andrea Zomorodian
Alto - Sarah Lych, Michele Hemmings, Alice Kirwan Murray, Ilana Summers
Tenor - Todd Strange, Adam Faruqi, Jody Golightly, Charles Lane
Bass - Ben Han-Wei Lin, James Hayden, Dylan Gentile, Luc Kleiner
Conductor: Amy Fogerson
Piano: Charlie Kim
Video Directed by: Louis Ng, Lenson Productions
recorded at All Saints Episcopal Church, Pasadena CA

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Beautiful and touching ❤️ Reena, your compositions are just amazing. Keep doing what you’re doing ❤

[@reenaesmailcomposer]

Aw, thank you!

[@ArtsLaureate]

Incredible sound with video to match.

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Thank you so much!