A Song For All Lovers - Live 1995

I have a woman friend whose name is Mardie Murie, and she is 93 years old

And I think she has done more for Alaska than any other single human being

And it comes out of not only her love and the experience that she had in that great land

And her love for that land

But uh, her love for the man who was her husband, whose name was Olaus Murie

And when Olaus passed away, many, many years ago

The way that Mardie kept his love and her feeling for him alive in her heart

Was to commit herself to saving the land that they both loved so very, very much

I know a lot of things I could, I could tell you about Mardie

But the thing I want to share with you is that

She spoke of Olaus always as her beloved

And they loved to dance The Waltz, especially

And they danced whenever they could, whenever they felt like it

Regardless of the conditions

And I have this picture of them out in the frozen tundra of Alaska

In each other's arms dancing

And no music except the sound of the wind

Rushing across that frozen wasteland

Or someplace in the forest or someplace beneath the full moon

And so I wrote this song for Mardie

I see them dancing somewhere in the moonlight

Somewhere in Alaska, somewhere in the sun

I hear them singing a song for all lovers

The song for the two hearts beating only as one

Imagine the morning no longer alone

The arms of another, a place to belong

No longer the struggle, no longer the night

And ever becoming in the quickening light

To see the darkness, to listen within

To answer in kindness, to ever begin

To ever be gentle, to always be strong

To walk in the wonder, to live in the song

In a place of enchantment where the wild things are known

Will the future remember when the lovers are gone?

To ever be gentle, to always be strong

To walk in the wonder, to live in the song

And I see them dancing somewhere in the moonlight

Somewhere in Alaska, somewhere in the sun

I hear them singing a song for all lovers

A song for the two hearts beating only as one

A song for the two hearts beating only as one