"My Heart Wants to Sing"

Oh "my heart wants to sing
like a happy lark in the tree"
my heart wants to soar
as if it has snowy wings...

For it is filled with a joy so great -
that it's going to burst at the seams!
it is filled with so much hope for the future -
it's impossible to think of anything but joy!
it is full of so much love -
that it could love the whole wide world!

For it is such a long, long time -
that life is filled with misery;
it has been so, so long ago -
that the sweetness of joy is long forgotten;
it has been a long, long time of loneliness
but now life is no longer a long, tedious road to travel, alone,
it has been like a whole century of pining and suffering -
but now it's a joyous path of adventure and rediscovery...

It is a joy like the taste of good wine -
as it is swirled in every corner of the mouth:
Sweet, yet intoxicating...
satisfying, yet craving for more...