Find Heaven In Your Own Arms
“I never knew heaven could speak, but now I do I’ve learned it through a conversation with you I never knew heaven could dance, but now I do With every step another dream comes true I always thought heaven was somewhere Way up high in the sky above I never thought heaven was someone Like you for me to love I never knew heaven could hold such tender charms I never knew heaven could be here in my arms.” Harry Revel & Mack Gordon, I Never Knew Heaven Could Speak There have been many great love songs over the decades, but unfortunately they have almost always expressed very needy, codependent believes. The focus is centered on finding heaven in someone else and the singer is hopelessly lost without that someone else. From Harry Nilsson’s sentiments in “Without You” (“I can’t live if living is without you”) to Irving Berlin’s sentiments in “I Never Knew Heaven Could Speak,” all of the emphasis is on finding happiness outside of one’s self. In othe...