Wonderful

Description: Brazilian Jazz Bossa Nova https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqbZD7eSWcHYX-mzH3rARjCuCKdXRW8kU&si=7kFGRv7WybbSHjNE One word. The only word left standing when every other word has been tried and found too small. He heard it all his life — from songs on the radio, from old couples on park benches, from friends who leaned in over coffee and said with knowing smiles that love is grand. Wonderful, they said. Wonderful, they promised. And he listened politely the way you listen to someone describing a country you have never visited — interested, perhaps, but unconvinced, because no amount of description can substitute for the feel of foreign soil beneath your own feet. Then one morning — without warning, without preparation, without a single chapter of his life having adequately foreshadowed what was about to happen — God placed her in his path. And the word he had heard a thousand times and never fully believed landed on him like sunlight landing on a man who has just stepped out of a cave. Wonderful. Not as a theory. Not as a rumour passed along by people who might have been exaggerating. As a fact. As the most concrete, undeniable, physically felt reality he has ever experienced. To hold her in his arms is wonderful. To walk beside her through an ordinary morning is wonderful. To love her the way Christ loves the Church — with devotion, with sacrifice, with a tenderness that holds her close and never lets the world's noise drown out the sound of her heartbeat — is wonderful. They were right. Every last one of them. Every song, every saying, every whispered testimony about love being grand was not only true but insufficient. Because wonderful is not a big enough word for what he feels. It is simply the only one he has left. And so he says it again. And again. And again. Wonderful. In every way. So they say. And so — at last, with his whole heart, with her in his arms, with the moon above and the grace of God beneath — so he knows. Wonderful [Verse 1] They say that falling in love is wonderful; It's wonderful, so they say. And with a moon up above, it's wonderful, it's wonderful, so they tell me. I can't recall who said it, I know I never read it, I only know they tell me that love is grand. [Pre-Chorus] And the thing that's known as romance, is wonderful, wonderful, in every way, so they say. [Chorus] Wonderful, wonderful, so they say. It's wonderful, wonderful, in every way. You'll find that falling in love is wonderful, it's wonderful, so they say. (so they say) It's wonderful, wonderful, in every way. [Verse 2] To leave your house some morning, and without any warning, God blesses you with a soul mate, a bride for whom you could devote your whole life to. You will hear people saying to you that love is grand. [Pre-Chorus] So love her as Christ loves the Church. So love her as Christ loves the Church. And hold her close. And hold her close. [Chorus] Wonderful, wonderful, so they say. It's wonderful, wonderful, in every way. You'll find that falling in love is wonderful, it's wonderful, so they say. (so they say) It's wonderful, wonderful, in every way. [Bridge] And to hold the girl in your arms is wonderful, wonderful, in every way, so they say. (so they say) [Final Chorus] Wonderful, wonderful, so they say. It's wonderful, wonderful, in every way. To hold the girl in your arms is wonderful, wonderful, in every way, so they say. (wonderful) So they say.