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I Carry Your Heart

Duration 4 minutes
Versions for: high, middle and low voice.


Videos

Blake Davidson performs “I Carry Your Heart” for Dallas theater pioneer Catherine Owens' memorial at Moody Performance Hall in Dallas.

Blake Davidson performs “I Carry Your Heart” for Dallas theater pioneer Catherine Owens' memorial at Moody Performance Hall in Dallas.

Blake Davidson performs “I Carry Your Heart” for Dallas theater pioneer Catherine Owens' memorial at Moody Performance Hall in Dallas.

Valerie Gonzales and Craig Ketter perform “I Carry Your Heart” for the New York Composers Circle sessions.

Valerie Gonzales and Craig Ketter perform “I Carry Your Heart” for the New York Composers Circle sessions.

Valerie Gonzales and Craig Ketter perform “I Carry Your Heart” for the New York Composers Circle sessions.


Lyrics

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
by E.E. Cummings

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
                                                     
i fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

“i carry your heart with me(i carry it in". Copyright © 1952, 1980, 1991 by the Trustees for the E. E. Cummings Trust, from COMPLETE POEMS: 1904-1962 by E. E. Cummings, edited by George J. Firmage. Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.



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