Now that we love
Now that the lonely nights are over
How do we make love stay
Now that we know
The fire can burn bright or merely smolder
How do we keep it from dying away
Elusive as dreams barely remembered in the morning
Love like a phantom flies
But held in the heart it pales like the empty smile adorning
A statue with sightless eyes
Moments fleet taste sweet within the rapture
When precious flesh is greedily consumed
But mystery is a thing not easily captured
And once deceased not easily exhumed
Now that we love
Look at the moonless night and tell me
How do we make love stay
"Make Love Stay"
Words and music by Daniel Fogelberg
Copyright 1982 Hickory Grove Music (ASCAP)
 "A sinuous piece written around a chapter of Tom Robbins' "Still Life With Woodpecker." Recorded (with my band) on a day off in L.A. while on tour in 1982. A musical question that, unfortunately, eludes me still."-Dan Fogelberg, from the liner notes in Portrait. Click HERE to hear more about it in Dan's own words, from the video, "Dan Fogelberg Live - Greetings From The West" Released on LP, CD, and cassette tape
in October, 1982 by Epic/CBS Records
Certified Triple Platinum
Part Of The Plan
Heart Hotels
Hard To Say
Longer
Missing You
The Power Of Gold
Make Love Stay
Leader Of The Band
Run For The Roses
Same Old Lang Syne
"I guess in all fairness I should say one more thing about making love stay.
When the mystery of the connection goes, love goes. It's that simple. This suggests that it isn't love that is so important to us but the mystery itself. The love connection may be merely a device to put us in contact with the mystery, and we long for the love to last so that the ecstacy of being near the mystery will last. It is contrary to the nature of mystery to stand still. Yet it's always there, somewhere, a world on the other side of the mirror (or the Camel pack), a promise in the next pair of eyes that smile at us. We glimpse it when we stand still.
The romance of new love, the romance of solitude, the romance of objecthood, the romance of ancient pyramids and distant stars are means of making contact with the mystery. When It comes to perpetuating it, however, I got no advice. But I can and will remind you of two of the most important facts I know:
(1) Everything is part of it.
(2) It's never too late to have a happy childhood."
-Tom Robbins, from his book 'Still Life With Woodpecker.'
Copyright 1980 by Tom Robbins. Published by Bantam Books.
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