Love in Another Language

from True Lovers of Adventure by Mary Lee Kortes

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Co-written with Stephen Butler

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LOVE IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE (M. Kortes/S. Butler) MCA Music (ASCAP)/ Clementunes (ASCAP)

I love you is more beautiful
Goodbye won’t hurt so bad
Making love in another language
After all is said and done
We still won’t understand
Making love in another language

I’m going far away
Where nobody knows my name
I’ll put on romantic accents
Disguise the pain

I love you is more beautiful
Goodbye won’t hurt so bad
Making love in another language
No misunderstanding
No charade or slight of hand
Take enough, never take advantage
And after all is said and done
We still won’t understand
Making love in another language

A stronger hand in mine
How come strangers can be so kind
They don’t even have to know you
To read your mind

I love you is more beautiful
Goodbye won’t hurt so bad
Making love in another language

Bridge: Once upon a time you swore your heart
Before I knew
Nobody could tell a lie so true
Not quite like you

Words are only music
We don’t have to comprehend
When it’s love in another language
We can make up meanings
Both the happy and the sad
When it’s love in another language

I love you is more beautiful
Goodbye won’t hurt so bad
Take enough,but never take advantage
And after all is said and done
We still won’t understand
Making love in another language
Oh..

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from True Lovers of Adventure, released April 23, 1999
Produced by Eric "Roscoe" Ambel

Mary Lee Kortes: lead vocals
Stephen Butler: electric & acoustic guitar,
Andy York: bass, acoustic guitar, background vocals
Joe Chiofalo: accordion & church organ
Graham Hawthorne: drums & percussion

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Mary Lee Kortes New York, New York

"Songs so meticulously crafted they sound completely natural". Jon Pareles, The New York Times
“Mary Lee Kortes's voice—the high mountain sunshine of Dolly Parton with a sweet-iron undercoat of Chrissie Hynde." David Fricke, Rolling Stone
"Mary Lee in concert... a feast for lovers of great songwriting that thrives in live performance for its wit, insight and glowing humanity." Billboard
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