Close your eyes, give me your hand, darling
Do you feel my heart beating
Do you understand?
Do you feel the same
Am I only dreaming
Is this burning an eternal flame?

I believe it's meant to be, darling
I watch you when you are sleeping
You belong with me
Do you feel the same?
Am I only dreaming
Or is this burning (burning) an eternal flame (eternal flame)?

Say my name
Sun shines through the rain
A whole life so lonely
And then come and ease the pain
I don't want to lose this feeling, oh

Say my name
Sun shines through the rain
A whole life so lonely
And then come and ease the pain
I don't want to lose this feeling, oh

Close your eyes, give me your hand
Do you feel my heart beating
Do you understand?
Do you feel the same
Am I only dreaming
Or is this burning an eternal flame?

Close your eyes, give me your hand, darling
Do you feel my heart beating
Do you understand?
Do you feel the same
Am I only dreaming
Is this burning an eternal flame?

Close your eyes, give me your hand, darling
Do you feel my heart beating
Do you understand?
Do you feel the same?
Am I only dreaming, ah
An eternal flame

Close your eyes, give me your hand, darling
Do you feel my heart beating
Do you understand?
Do you feel the same
Am I only dreaming, ah
Is this burning an eternal flame?

Close your eyes, give me your hand


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Eternal Flame Lyrics as written by Thomas F. Kelly Susanna Lee Hoffs

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    French kissed my first real girlfriend outside a café, overlooking the eiffel tower on this song. Probably 10.000.000 other teens did the same somewhere, sometime... but I swear: at that very time, at that very place, this song was playing just for us :) Almost 30 years later I can't help feeling melancholy, thinking about Sophie and the Eiffel Tower every time I hear this song

    justmey1973on April 22, 2016   Link

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