All Jake Heggie Lyrics (en) Total 25
Jake Heggie - That I Did Always LoveThat I did always love I bring thee Proof That till I loved I never lived — Enough — That I shall love alway — I argue thee That love is life — And life hath
Jake Heggie - Bird SoulIf birds are human souls What bird are you? A spring bird with a joyful song? A high flyer? Are you an evening bird Watching the moon Singing alone, alone
Jake Heggie - Because I Liked You BetterBecause I liked you better Than suits a man to say It irked you, and I promised To throw the thought away To put the world between us We parted, stiff and dry;
Jake Heggie - The Factory Window SongFactory windows are always broken Somebody's always throwing bricks Somebody's always heaving cinders Playing ugly Yahoo tricks Factory windows are always broken
Jake Heggie - In Praise of Songs That DieAh, they are passing, passing by Wonderful songs, but born to die! Cries from the infinite human seas Waves thrice-winged with harmonies Here I stand on a pier in the foam
Jake Heggie - The Farms of HomeThe farms of home lie lost in even I see far off the steeple stand; West and away from here to heaven Still is the land There if I go no girl will greet me No comrade
Jake Heggie - What if I say I shall not wait!What if I say I shall not wait? What if I burst the fleshly gate And pass, escaped, to thee? What if I file this mortal off See where it hurt me, - that's enough, -
Jake Heggie - "Why do I love" You, Sir?"Why do I love" You, Sir? Because -- The Wind does not require the Grass To answer -- Wherefore when He pass She cannot keep Her place Because He knows --
Jake Heggie - White in the MoonWhite in the moon the long road lies The moon stands blank above; White in the moon the long road lies That leads me from my love Still hangs the hedge without a gust
Jake Heggie - PatternsI walk down the garden paths And all the daffodils Are blowing, and the bright blue squills I walk down the patterned garden-paths In my stiff, brocaded gown With my powdered
Jake Heggie - Grow Old Along With MeGrow old along with me! The best is yet to be The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in His hand Who saith "A whole I planned Youth shows but
Jake Heggie - RecuerdoWe were very tired, we were very merry— We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry It was bare and bright, and smelled like a stable— But we looked into a fire, we leaned across
Jake Heggie - The Pieces{TENOR} But let me have one more good round look aloft here at the sea; there’s time for that. An old, old sight, and yet somehow so young; aye, and not changed a wink since I first
Jake Heggie - The Wind{TENOR} Were I the wind, I'd blow no more on such a wicked, miserable world. I’d crawl somewhere to a cave, and slink there {CHOIR} Evil is unspectacular
Jake Heggie - Dawn{TENOR} Oh, what a lovely day again! were it a new-made world, and made for a summer-house to the angels, and this morning the first of its throwing open to them, a fairer day could
Jake Heggie - Wanda Landowska"My God! My God"’ she said "Whatever shall I do? My concerto! Why are you so late?" I’ll have it to you very soon "Very soon? When is that,
Jake Heggie - To a StrangerPassing stranger! you do not know how longingly I look upon you You must be he I was seeking, or she I was seeking, (it comes to me As of a dream,) I have somewhere surely lived a life
Jake Heggie - What Lips My Lips Have KissedWhat lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why I have forgotten, and what arms have lain Under my head till morning; but the rain Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh
Jake Heggie - My True Love Hath My HeartMy true-love hath my heart, and I have his By just exchange one for the other given: I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss; There never was a bargain better driven His heart in
Jake Heggie - Animal PassionFierce as a bobcat's spring With start-up speeds of sixty miles per hour I want a lover to sweep me off my feet And slide me into the gutter Without the niceties of small-talk
Jake Heggie - CreationI give birth to myself My own mother and father For years I ran like a clock-work mouse Mama says, Papa says When does Goldilocks say I am Driven I didn't
Jake Heggie - If You Were Coming in the FallIf you were coming in the Fall I'd brush the Summer by With half a smile, and half a spurn As Housewives do, a Fly If I could see you in a year I’d wind the months
Jake Heggie - SpringTo what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough You can no longer quiet me with the redness Of little leaves opening stickily I know what I know The sun is
Jake Heggie - Women Have Loved BeforeWomen have loved before as I love now; At least, in lively chronicles of the past— Of Irish waters by a Cornish prow Or Trojan waters by a Spartan mast Much to their cost
Jake Heggie - Ophelia's SongThe hills are green, my dear one And blossoms are filling the air The spring is arisen and I am a prisoner there In this flowery field I’ll lay me And dream of the open
Jake Heggie
An American composer of eight full length operas and nearly 300 art songs. His bio can be found here.