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THIS TIME WITH YOU

Music, Lyrics and Vocal Arrangement by Paulo K. Tirol

I take a breath and close my eyes,
And slow my world down for just a while,
And in the stillness, I feel You before me.
I let myself go, and open my heart to You

Pre-chorus:
In this special time.
With You, in this secret time.
With You, in this sacred time.
I can’t help but fall in love
In this time with You.

Refrain:
I love this time with You.
Only You,
Cause no one else could know me better,
No one else’s heart is closer,
No one’s whispers wake such wonder as Yours do.
And nothing else can make me stronger,
Nothing fills my heart with fire.
Nothing but our time together, me and You.
How I love this secret, sacred time with You.

Your arms so strong are my strength too.
Your tight embrace says “I’m with you.”
Your touch so gentle says through all that’s changing.
Through whens, wheres and whys,
The one thing that’s sure is You

(Pre-chorus and refrain)

Your heart to mine, we converse in the silence
Where so much is said wordlessly.
Lost in Your rapture, I gladly surrender,
Letting Your love move in me
With this time with You

(Refrain)

How I love this secret, sacred time
How I love this secret, sacred time
How I love this secret, sacred time with You.

Do you hear me,
I’m talking to you
Across the water across the deep blue ocean
Under the open sky oh my, baby I’m trying
Boy I hear you in my dreams
I feel your whisper across the sea
I keep you with me in my heart
You make it easier when life gets hard

I’m lucky I’m in love with my best friend
Lucky to have been where I have been
Lucky to be coming home again

They don’t know how long it takes
Waiting for a love like this
Every time we say goodbye
I wish we had one more kiss
I’ll wait for you I promise you, I will

I’m lucky I’m in love with my best friend
Lucky to have been where I have been
Lucky to be coming home again
I’m lucky we’re in love in every way
Lucky to have stayed where we have stayed
Lucky to be coming home someday

And so I’m sailing through the sea
To an island where we’ll meet
You’ll hear the music, feel the air
I’ll put a flower in your hair
Though the breezes through trees
Move so pretty you’re all I see
As the world keeps spinning round
You hold me right here right now

I’m lucky I’m in love with my best friend
Lucky to have been where I have been
Lucky to be coming home again
I’m lucky we’re in love in every way
Lucky to have stayed where we have stayed
Lucky to be coming home someday

If I speak with the tongues of the earth, if the angels fill my mouth,
yet do not have love, I am but a sound.
If I prophesy and understand all things, if mountains shake by my faith,
without love I am nothing at all.

Refrain:
Love is patient; love is kind. Love rejoices in the truth.
It bears all things, believes all things,
it hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails.

If I give away everything I own, give my body to be burned,
yet do not have love, I gain nothing more. Prophecies will cease;
tongues will be silent. Knowledge will be no more, the partial pass away.

When I was a child, I talked, thought, and live like a child.
But now that I have grown, I have put these things aside.
My knowledge is imperfect now, then I’ll know as I am known:
that faith, hope and love remain, and the greatest of these is love.

Intro: D – D/C – G/B – Gm/Bb (2x)

D A/C#
Isang saglit na walang hanggan
G F#m7 – Bm7
Ang buhay kong tangan
FM7 Em7 Am7
Paano kung wala ka nang
BbM7 G/A
Langit na hantungan

D A/C#
Isang tuldok sa kalawakan
GM7 F#m7 – Bm7
Katawan ko’t isipan
FM7 Em7 Am7
Puso ko’y naghahagilap
BbM7 G/A
Ng kabuluhan

KORO:
F#m7-Bm7 Em7 G/A
Ikaw lamang ang nakapupuno
A/G F#m7-Bm7 Em7 G/A
Sa aming mga puso
A/B G#m7-C#m7 AM7 G#m7-C#m7
Ikaw lamang ang nagbibigay kahulugan
CM7 BbM7 G/A
Sa isang saglit na aming tangan

Ano’ng saysay ng pagpapantay
Ng lipunang pantay-pantay
Kung naglalaho naman
Anumang lipunan

Ano’ng saysay ng buong mundo
Kung sa pag-ikot ay hihinto
Puso ko’y naghahgilap
Ng kabuluhan (KORO)

Coda:
G/A F#m7-Bm7-Em7-G/A
Ikaw lamang
D
Ooh!

Chords:
F-C/F-Eb/F-Bb/F (2x)
Dm/B-E7-Am7-Cm6
Bbm6-F/C-Bb/C-Dbmaj7

I.
We are the children of easter morning
We sing to celebrate our new lives
The dawn of an eternal morning
The fulfilment of our ageless desires
We sing with joy in our hearts over flowing
We sing to beck on those who dwell in the dark
We’ll keep on singing till all men celebrate this eastern morn

II.
We are the children of easter morning
We sing to proclaim the Lord’s might
Now there’s meaning to a life of dying
For the Lord our God has conquered the night
With joy we dedicate our lives to the service
Of the God of life whose goodness we’ve known
Until our lives be themselves our song of easter morn

Chords:
Bb/C-F-C/F-Bb/F-F/A
Gm7-F/A-Dbmaj9-C7sus4
Am7-Dm7-G7/B-Bb/F
Am7-D-Gm7-C-Dbmaj7-Bb/C

Refrain.
May our simple lives be a song of praise to the goodness of the Lord
May the Lord delight in this song we sing, this song we live with joy
If we had to sing just one song to the Lord creator of life
May our lives be that song, resounding in praise to the goodness and glory of God

(Repeat 2)
(Repeat Refrain twice)

Coda.
F/C                                            Bb/C-Bb-F/A-Gm-Eb
We’ll keep on singing till all men celebrate
(Singing till all men celebrate)
F
This easter morn

Pauwi na sa tahanan Mo.
Pabalik na sa Iyo.
Tanggapin at kupkupin,
kapatid namin sa ‘Yong piling.

Kami ma’y nalulumbay,
siya ngayo’y naglalakbay.
Mga anghel ang gagabay
tungo sa Iyong kamay.

Ang lungkot, ‘Yong pawiin.
Ang pait, ‘Yong paghilumin.
Sa aming magkawalay,
pag-ibig Mo ang tutulay.

Pagkukulang, patawarin.
Kabutihan, huwag limutin.
Sa kamatayan, siya’y hanguin.
Buhay niya’y ‘Yong ganapin.

Walk by me, Walk by me across the lonely road of everyday.
Take my arms and let Your hand show me the way.
Show the way to live inside Your love; lead me Lord, lead me all my life.

You are my light, You’re the lamp upon my feet.
All the time, my Lord, I need You there.
You are my life, I cannot live alone.
Let me stay by Your guiding love,
All through my life, lead me Lord.

Lead me Lord, Even though at times I’d rather go along my way.
Help me take the right direction, take Your road.
Lead me Lord and never leave my side, all my days, all my life.

You are my light, You’re the lamp upon my feet.
All the time, my Lord, I need You there.
You are my life, I cannot live alone.
Let me stay by Your guiding love,
All through my life, all through my days, lead me O Lord, all my life.

Ang atas Ko sa inyo mga kaibigan Ko
ay magmahalan kayo tulad ng pagmamahal Ko sa inyo.
May hihigit pa kayang dakila sa pag-ibig na laang
ialay ang buhay alang-alang sa kaibigan.
Kayo nga’y kaibigan Ko kung matutupad ninyo ang iniaatas Ko.

T’wing dakong dapit-hapon, minamasdan kong lagi.
Ang paglubog ng araw, hudyat ng takipsilim.
Ganyan ang aking buhay, kung may dilim ang buwan.
Hihiwat sa baybayin sa pagsapit ng dilim.

Walang sinuman ang nabubuhay para sa sarili lamang
Walang sinuman ang namamatay para sa sarili lamang

Tayong lahat ay may pananagutan sa isa’t isa.
(Ikaw ay Pilipino, ikaw ay kapwa ko)
Tayong lahat ay tinipon ng Diyos na kapiling niya.
(Ikaw ay kapatid ko, at ika’y papanagutan ko)

Sabay-sabay na nag-aawitan ang mga bansa
Tayo’y tinuring ng Panginoon bilang mga anak.
Tayong lahat ay may pananagutan sa isa’t isa.
Tayong lahat ay tinipon ng Diyos na kapiling niya.

Kahanga-hanga ang Iyong pangalan
O Panginoon, sa sangkalupaan
Ipinagbunyi mo ang Iyong kamahalan
Sa buong kalangitan.