Aluron - James Baldwin On Love Lyrics

James: It's what you see in your mirror
What you try to do is isolate whatever it is you see in that other person, which is you
Everybody knows, for example, if you listen, every writer knows
If you listen to me or I listen to you, no matter what I may be describing, I'm describing myself

And a man can fall in love with a man, a woman can fall in love with a woman
There's nothing anybody can do about it
It's not in the province of the law
It's something you do with the church

And if you lie about that, if you lie about that, you lie about everything
It's about what happens to you if you can't love anybody
It doesn't make any difference whether
You can't love a woman, you can't love a man
If you can't love anybody
You are dangerous

Because you have no way of learning humility
No way of learning that other people suffer
No way of learning how to use your suffering and theirs to get from one place to another
In short, you fail even in responsibility, which is to love each other

Interviewer: Are you still in despair about the world

James: I never have been in despair, but I'm enraged

Interviewer: Enraged, all right

James: I don't think I'm in despair, I can't afford despair
I can't tell my nephew, my niece, I can't tell them
You can't tell the children
There's no hope