Love Again is a slow, tender, thoughtful, pensive, melancholy, bluesy sort of song pondering lost love and questioning whether love will ever find a way back to your heart again.  At the same time, this song is a dialogue between the singer and an ‘unseen’ second person, so the listener doesn’t really know if the singer is contemplating their own situation out loud to no one in particular, or if the singer is trying to comfort another.  Comforting another person’s heart in their hour of need is one of the most tender and thoughtful of human emotions – after all, emotion is the very basis and foundation of both new and rekindled love.  “Can you ever love again, Once your love is gone, Can you ever love again, With a broken heart…”

As with all of my early songs during which I worked with my friend Gordon Olvera, I’ve shared the copyright with him for trying to give voice to my songs.  Also, emailed versions of these songs lose their chord alignment and formatting, so refer to the original post and/or the scanned lyric sheet as your guide.

Love Again

“Turn To Face The Music”, Collected Works Volume II, Copyright 1990, Gordon Olvera/Mark Jones, All Rights Reserved

Verse One:

G          D            Bm

Can you ever love again

               A        G

Once your love is gone

             A           G

Can you ever love again

                     D        (End)

With a broken heart

             Bm                    A

If you’re looking for some comfort

             Bm              G

If you’re looking for a shoulder

                    A        G

Come on and cry on me

             A        G    A        G

Oh baby cry on me, Cry on me

             A        G

Oh baby cry on me

Verse II:

             D           Bm

Can you ever love again

                  A            G

Once you’ve lost your love

             A           G

Can you ever love again

                           D

Once love’s grown apart

             Bm           A

If you’ve ever lost a love

          Bm                   G

If your love was turned away

                      A          G

You know that love can hurt

             A          G      A           G

Oh baby love can hurt, Love can hurt

             A          G

Oh baby love can hurt

Verse Three:

            D           Bm

Will the sun ever shine

                A          G

Once your love has gone

            A                G

Will you ever see the sun

                        D

Shine on in your life

             Bm               A

If you’re running from trouble

             Bm                    G

If you’re looking for some shelter

             A         G

You can lean on me

             A         G

Oh baby lean on me

             A         G

Oh baby lean on me

             A         G     (Return to the beginning)

Oh baby lean on me