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© by Wallace Earl De Pue (b. 1932)

Rhythm
Language: English 
You've got a rhythm that flows like a river in 
constant motion with a grace unexplainable. 

You have a unique feeling for rhythm. 
It is your mystique. 
Call it a rhythm within you.
I see it! 
Maybe, some day, we can free it. 
I'm in love with it!
Rhythm makes me survive. 
Rhythm keeps me alive!

Never stop the rhythm! 
Let your beat confuse me, utterly!
Passion is a raw, vibrating rhythm 
moving forward with steps the same as yours. 
Touch me! 
Let me feel it! 
If you reveal it, 
I may steal it. 

Your rhythm taunts me with sight and sound and flow. 
Such movement haunts me in ways too deep to know. 
My dearest pleasure is watching you 
in slow motion, 
subtly dancing. 
You're so entrancing, your rhythm makes me want to move. 
You've got a rhythm that flows like a river with constant notion.

Text Authorship:

  • by Wallace Earl De Pue (b. 1932), copyright © by Wallace Earl De Pue, (re)printed on this website with kind permission [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Wallace Earl De Pue (b. 1932), "Rhythm", from Eight Textures of Love, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: Wallace Earl De Pue

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 25
Word count: 147

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