{"id":1433,"date":"2008-06-21T05:18:37","date_gmt":"2008-06-21T05:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fadingad.wordpress.com\/?p=1433"},"modified":"2015-06-02T00:47:14","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T00:47:14","slug":"the-right-to-love-happy-birthday-lalo-schifrin-76-years-old-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2008\/06\/21\/the-right-to-love-happy-birthday-lalo-schifrin-76-years-old-today\/","title":{"rendered":"The Right To Love – Happy Birthday Lalo Schifrin – 76 Years Old Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Right To Love – Lyrics Gene Lees – Music Lalo Schifrin<\/a><\/h3>\n

My love and I ask little of the world
\nThe right to sigh together in the rain
\nAnd walk with heads up in the sun
\nAnd share our joy and our pain<\/p>\n

And yet they say that we are wrong
\nThat we haven’t the right to our love
\nThat this love is shameful to see
\nAnd yet we treasure our love<\/p>\n

And so we go our solitary ways
\nIndifferent to the cold unfriendly stares
\nIndifferent to the whispered talk
\nWe don’t care at all<\/p>\n

We have all we need
\nAs long as we can be together
\nWe know we’ve earned the precious right to love<\/p>\n

And so we go our solitary ways
\nIndifferent to the cold unfriendly stares
\nIndifferent to the whispered talk
\nWe don’t care at all<\/p>\n

We have all we need
\nAs long as we can be together
\nWe find our consolation in each others eyes
\nThe sweet look of wonder
\nWe know we’ve earned the precious right to love<\/p>\n

\"Lush<\/p>\n

I first heard this tune in the 80s when dating a lovely man named Sammy Velazquez. The lyrics by Gene Lees (and music by Lalo Schifrin<\/a>) so tenderly express the sentiments of what was then attributed to interracial love, yet can be universally interpreted. There’s also\u00a0a great rendition by Freddy Cole with Grover Washington Jr on soprano sax. Here is k.d lang’s version on youtube:<\/p>\n