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