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Life

(Shirl Milete)


Copyright Elvis Presley Music Inc.

Original by Shirl Milete in 1969


RCA studio session - June 4-8, 1970 - RCA's Studio B - Nashville

 June 6, 6-9 pm, 10 pm-1 am, 1:30-4:30 am

ZPA4 1613-20


Overdub sessions for RCA - June 22, 1970 - RCA's Studio A - Nashville

 ZPA4 1613-20


Overdub sessions for RCA - July 18, 1970 - RCA's Studio A - Nashville

 ZPA4 1613-20
May 1971 Single A side RCA 47-9985 Life / Only Believe
June 1971 LP RCA LSP 4530 Love Letters From Elvis
Outtakes:
Takes 1 (fs) and 2: August 11 2008 CD FTD 88697 29701-2 Love Letters From Elvis
Take 2: June 25, 2002 CD RCA BMG 07863-65115-2 Elvis Today, Tomorrow & Forever
Take 10: July 23, 2002 CD FTD 74321 95046-2 The Nashville Marathon





Somewhere out in empty space
Long before the human race
Something stirred
A vast and timeless source began
Intelligence was born and then
There was the word


Powers filled the universe
Matter formed and broke the curse
Of nothingness
Love became an ageless soul
Nature reached her highest goal
And breathed the breath of life
Everlasting life


Well, creatures came from out of sight
Daylight came from in the night
And all was good
Life became a master plan
Love produced a perfect man
That understood


The image of the makers word
Worshipped him with all he had
But then one day
From in the depths an evil seed
Grew and manufactured greed
And changed the way of life
Everlasting life


Oh, the loving powers looked and saw
Inside the heart of man a flaw
Begin to grow
Well, the fires of hell began to burn
And so he sent his chosen son
To let us know


That love had surely made us all
And hate would surely make us fall
So from the cross
Well he showed the world that dreadful day
That love could be the only way
Or all is lost of life
everlasting life
For life is love and love is life