I Love You Dead or Alive — An adult woman reaches across a ribbon of flowers and light toward the warm celestial memory of an adult loved one above a radiant Merced garden

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I Love You Dead or Alive

Words by Douglas Heyes Jr. Listen to the recorded versions and follow the lyric below.

Original Doug Heyes lyrics · AI-generated music & vocals

Having missed the chance to say goodbye, the narrator addresses a loved one whose absence has changed every evening. Seasonal changes measure the time that continues without them. His promise reaches beyond death, imagining friendship and reunion on the far side of a river while he carries the love that remains.

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Recorded versions

3 recordings. Different voices and arrangements bring another side of the song into the light.

Lyrics

I Love You Dead or Alive

Words by Douglas Heyes Jr

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I LOVE YOU DEAD OR ALIVE

If you're dead or you're alive
If you are on the other side
I will love you for all time
Always be a Friend of mine
But when I crossed over the Line
I didn't make it back in time
I never got to say Goodbye
If you're Dead or you're Alive

I Love You, Dead or Alive
Oh my Lord, the tears I cried
When they said You'd gone away
Seems like Only Yesterday
The Autumn leaves have come and gone
Time to sing our Wintersong
And though I must be movin' on
Babe, I am already gone

In my Heart I'm still with You
Don't know what I'm gonna do
When the Day turns into Night
All alone by Firelight
I used to be right here with You
Makes me sad, but it's all True
Since I fell in Love with You
And the Sun came shinin' through

Goodbye for now, I guess I'll say
I'll see you on some other day
Till it's time for us to fly
I love you dead or alive
Gypsy River, take me Home
I'd spend Forever all alone
If at the end, I'd be with you
Because I'm still in Love with You

It don't really matter
On the far side of the River
Where the Promise of Forever
Just glitters in the Sun
But if we make it round the bend
I will always be your friend
I'll still Love you for all Time
I Love You Dead or Alive

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