In looking for a suitably romantic love song for an added  Valentine’s Day ‘Listening In’, it occurred to me that love is much more than the obvious Feb 14th choices of hearts and flowers, chocolates, candlelit dinners and romance. It’s friendship. It’s all those times we get together to share stories, confide, confess, laugh, weep and yes, even argue and disagree, with friends – of any sex.

So, this Valentine’s Day song is dedicated to all my friends – to all our friends – yours and mine – but especially to Geoffrey – remembering an evening in Fort Lauderdale where we played ‘Islands in The Stream’ incessantly while imbibing large quantities of … I wish I could remember what…

So here it is – just an upbeat catchy song that can’t help but make one feel just a little better…

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone!

Lyrics

Baby, when I met you there was peace unknown
I set out to get you with a fine tooth comb
I was soft inside
There was something going on

You do something to me that I can’t explain
Hold me closer and I feel no pain
Every beat of my heart
We got something going on

Tender love is blind
It requires a dedication
All this love we feel needs no conversation
We ride it together, ah ha
Making love with each other, ah ha

Islands in the stream
That is what we are
No one in between
How can we be wrong?
Sail away with me
To another world
And we rely on each other, ah ha
From one lover to another, ah ha

I can’t live without you if the love was gone
Everything is nothing if you got no one
And you did walk in the night
Slowly losing sight of the real thing
But that won’t happen to us and we got no doubt
Too deep in love and we got no way out
And the message is clear
This could be the year for the real thing

No more will you cry
Baby, I will hurt you never
We start and end as one
In love forever
We can ride it together, ah ha
Making love with each other, ah ha

Islands in the stream
That is what we are
No one in between
How can we be wrong?
Sail away with me
To another world
And we rely on each other, ah ha
From one lover to another, ah ha

Sail away
Oh, come sail away with me

Islands in the stream
That is what we are
No one in between
How can we be wrong?
Sail away with me
To another world
And we rely on each other, ah ha
From one lover to another, ah ha

Islands in the stream
That is what we are
No one in between
How can we be wrong?
Sail away with me
To another world
And we rely on each other, ah ha
From one lover to another, ah ha

Islands in the stream
That is what we are
No one in between

Songwriters: Barry Alan Gibb / Maurice Ernest Gibb / Robin Hugh Gibb