Jan's+song

**You seemed to me the queen of cool** **Sweet port and cigarettes seemed to sustain you** **I left to walk my crooked path** **Re-emerged into a sun-filled park** **And there you were again: almost a stranger** **Almost a stranger** **...**
 * (To tune of Len Cohen's** **//Hallelujah)//**
 * ** We met when I still thought I was a fool **

**You said you had a room to spare** **One perfect day I met you there** **I rode that curling bridge across the river** **With a flop-eared dog, just you and me** **Beneath the avocado tree** **I raised my glass to all that chance delivered** **Chance delivers** **...**

**We both found love within those walls** **Four voices bouncing round like balls** **Food and wine and friends around that table** **How often did those nights roar on** **A story in each chosen song** **We'd abandon inhibition 'til unabled** **Until unabled** **...** ||  **I see all the books that line your hall** **Amazingly you've read them all** **Art is part of daily life it does infuse ya** **The human circus that lies inside** **The tragicomic bungee ride** **Fuel talk that's rich and true to life's confusion** **Life's confusion** **...**

**Your body has not one religious bone** **But some say that God is love alone** **If that is true there's very few who are devouter** **You held our child when she was splashed** **No safer arms could we have wished** **For our small, sweet, precious one to have around her** **Your arms around her** **...**

**When you're 20, 50 seems so old** **When you're 50, 20 has no soul** **it's just exuberance with a slightly longer future** **Perhaps it all boils down to this** **That grace is found in a life well lived** **At any age to share the hallelujah** **Hallelujah** **...** ||