You Must Believe In Spring - Tony Bennett and Bill Evans
When lonely feelings chill
The meadows of your mind,
Just think if winter comes,
Can spring be far behind?
Beneath the deepest snows,
The secret of a rose
Is merely that it knows
You must believe in spring.
Just as a tree is sure
Its leaves will reappear;
It knows its emptiness
Is just the time of year.
The frozen mountain dreams
Of April's melting streams,
How crystal clear it seems,
You must believe in spring
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You Must Believe in Spring, recorded in 1977, was the first album published after the death of Bill Evans, in 1980. Themes like absence, loss, death (so close to Bill, after the death of his brother, and his friend Scott La Faro) are expressed in the musical research & development of this cd, a pearl in his Jazz recording history. This is the title track, #2, You Must Believe in Spring.