Lea Salonga’s “Two Words”

 

Included in Lea Salonga‘s latest album — Inspired — is her official wedding song “Two Words.”

The Broadway star first sung the song in her wedding back in January of 2004 as she serenaded her groom — Robert Chen — just before reciting her vows. Composed by Louie Ocampo and penned by Freddie Santos as a wedding gift to the couple, the album version was arranged by her brother, Gerard Salonga. Inspired is currently available in record bars and can be pre-ordered now via Amazon (release date on Thursday: Feb. 22).

Read its lyrics below. You’d get to hear the song from the YouTube video below which includes clips from their actual wedding.

TWO WORDS
(music by Louie Ocampo, lyrics by Freddie Santos)

 In a while, in a word
Every moment now returns
For a while, seen or heard
How each mem’ry softly burns

 Facing you who brings me new tomorrows
I thank God for yesterdays
How they led me to this very hour
How they led me to this place

 Every touch, every smile you have given me in care
Keeping heart, always I’ll now be treasuring everywhere

And if life should come to just one question
Do I hold each moment true?
No trace of sadness, always with gladness
‘I DO’

 Now a song that speaks of now and ever
Beckons me to someone new
Unexpected, unexplored, unseen
Filled with promise coming through

 In a while, in a word
You and I forever changed
Love so clear, never blurred
Has me feeling wondrous, strange

 And if life should come to just one question
Do I face each moment true?
No trace of sadness, always with gladness
‘I DO’
Never with sadness, always with gladness
‘I DO’