This song was featured in the musical "Perchance to Dream," which premiered on the West End in 1945.
Love is my reason for living,
Love is my reason for giving,
Life would be only empty and lonely
if it were not for love.
Do you remember our meeting?
Surely you heard my beating,
Now in your tender arms I surrender
finding my own true love.
VERSE
Here is my heart,
Beating for you,
Take this reminder of these moments
when our fates have been kinder.
Here is my heart,
Pray use it well,
If I could not give
I should not choose to live.
REFRAIN
Love is my reason for living,
Love is my reason for giving,
Life would be only empty and lonely
if it were not for love.
Do you remember our meeting?
Surely you heard my beating,
Now in your tender arms I surrender
finding my own true love.