beautiful love

at first i thought it was Kent or at least they had the same singer. i later found out that it's a new group. and they were a Christian band, although not marketed as such. more than the inspiring lyrics, it's the melody that really struck me hard. one time, i just stayed in the parking lot listening to this song on the radio.

oh my God! i've been on a CD buying binge the past two weeks. i bought a total of 6 cds locally and ordered 4 more on the internet. now i'm thinking of buying this cd next. what the heck, it should be a fun album based on the reviews. i'll have a lot of music in stack for all those lazy rainy days coming.

here's the lyrics and some notes on the song from a website. read on...

Beautiful Love
By The Afters

Far away, I feel your beating heart
All alone, beneath the crystal stars
and staring into space, what a lonely face
I'll try to find my place with you

Chorus:
What a beautiful smile
Can It stay for a while
On this beautiful night
We'll make everything right
My beautiful love
My beautiful love

Larger then the moon, my love for you
World's collide, as heaven pulls us through
The secret of the world is written in the stars
I'm carrying your heart in mine

What a beautiful smile
Can It stay for a while
On this beautiful night
We'll make everything right
My beautiful love

Maybe a greater thing will happen
Maybe all will see
Maybe our love will catch like fire
As it burns through me

Maybe a greater thing will happen
Maybe all will see
Maybe our love will catch like fire
As it burns through me

Maybe a greater thing will happen
Maybe all will see
Maybe our love will catch like fire
As it burns through me

What a beautiful smile
Can It stay for a while
On this beautiful night
We'll make everything right

What a beautiful smile
Can It stay for a while
On this beautiful night
We'll make everything right
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My beautiful love

“Beautiful Love” doubles as male-to-female or human-and-God communication. The singer searches the night skies for signs while acknowledging that the love he feels in return is carried within his own heart. Even as the worlds collide (personalities, ideas, heavenly bodies themselves), “heaven pulls us through,” they sing. The focus that turns the tide toward a spiritual relationship is that the fire of the love burns within the singer (singularly), with the hopes that it will catch on with others, similar to an evangelical understanding of sharing faith.

The album's first single, "Beautiful Love" opens with a crescendo of guitar, piano and drums before Havens' nimble voice and a chorus of ringing guitars break through the din. The song was written, Havens says, while his wife was in Mexico on a humanitarian-aid trip. "Shortly after we got married, she left to help build houses for people who were living in shanties. I was back in Dallas strumming on a guitar thinking about how people say 'love can change the world.' It's usually a cliché, but my wife was living out that ideal. That night I wrote 'Beautiful Love' for her and all the magical things that can come from love."

from http://www.hollywoodjesus.com/afters_wish_we.htm