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I Want to Die While You Love Me

Season 2015-2016
Performance Date February 21, 2016
Performance Year 2016
Performance Time 7:00PM
Location Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, MN
Performance Title VocalEssence WITNESS: Morehouse College Glee Club
Composer Rosephanye Powell
Country USA
Year Composed 2016
Timing 4min 33sec
Performers

VocalEssence Chorus and Talented Tenth Apprentices from Como Park High School; G. Phillip Shoultz, III, conductor

Text Translation

I want to die while you love me, While yet you hold me fair, While Laughter lies upon my lips And lights are in my hair. I want to die while you love me And bear to that still bed Your kisses turbulent, unspent To warm me when I’m dead. I want to die while you love me; Oh, who would care to live Till love has nothing more to ask And nothing more to give? I want to die while you love me, And never, never see The glory of this perfect day Grow dim, or cease to be!

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