| information | | Title: Bittersweet Writers: Lyric by Rumi and music by Adam Plack, Yaron Fuchs, Sussan Deyhim and Richard Horowitz Producers: Adam Plack and Yaron Fuchs Length of the album version: 2' 12'' Credits: ©1998 Tommy boy music. | | coments | | "Bittersweet" is a poem read by Madonna. She gives this contribution to the project of the guru Deepak Chopra. The poems on this CD were written in the 13rd century by a persian poet called Jalaleddin Rumi. Now, some musicians have added music to these beautiful poems, and they made a perfect new age album. The full name of the CD is "A Gift Of Love: Deepak And Friends Present Music Inspired By The Love Poems Of Rumi", and we can find many famous people reading apart from Madonna: Goldie Hawn, Debra Winger, Demi Moore, Noah Hutton... among others. Madonna reads "Bittersweet", the second poem of the second part of the CD (called "Love Drunk" - with the poems "My Burning Heart", "Bittersweet" and "Intoxicated By Love"). | | collector items | | | Format: cd 5'' Coments: "Bittersweet" can be found in the album "A Gift Of Love: Deepak And Friends Present Music Inspired By The Love Poems Of Rumi", with 21 more tracks. | This list of collectibles is not complete, it's just an orientative guide of the most important things | | lyric | | Bittersweet | | In my hallucination I saw my Beloved's flower garden In my vertigo; in my dizziness In my drunken haze Whirling and dancing like a spinning wheel I saw myself as the source of existence I was there in the beginning And I was the Spirit of Love Now I am sober There is only the hangover And the memory of love And only the sorrow I yearn for happiness; I ask for help I want mercy And my Love says "Look at me and hear me Because I am here just for that" | I am your woman and your moonlight too I am your flower garden and your water too I have come all this way eager for you Without shoes or shroud I want you to laugh, to kill all your worries To love you, to nourish you Oh, Sweet Bitterness I will soothe you and heal you I will bring you roses I too have been covered with thorns | | | | official versions | | 1. Album Version (2:12) | |