Van Morrison: “Have I Told You Lately That I Love You”

This song is widely considered to be about Van Morrison’s relationship with God and religious convictions. Although we’ve never heard him speak specifically about the song, he does acknowledge a spiritual element in his music. When asked about the topic in a 2009 Q&A in Time magazine, Morrison said, “Religion is a kind of word game. It’s whatever it means to those individuals who are following that belief system. If you say something has got spirit or “I feel the spirit,” to me, that would be more appropriate – spirit in the Aristotelian sense, that the mind and body and spirit are one thing. Which is different from religion

(source songfacts.com)

Have I told you lately that I love you

Have I told you there’s no one above you

Fill my heart with gladness

Take away my sadness

Ease my troubles, that’s what you do

Oh the morning sun in all its glory

Greets the day with hope and comfort too

And you fill my life with laughter

You can make it better

Ease my troubles that’s what you do

There’s a love that’s divine

And it’s yours and it’s mine

Like the sun

At the end of the day

We should give thanks and pray to the One

Have I told you lately that I love you

Have I told you there’s no one above you

Fill my heart with gladness

Take away my sadness

Ease my troubles, that’s what you do

There’s a love that’s divine

And it’s yours and it’s mine

And it shines like the sun

At the end of the day we will give thanks and pray to the One

Have I told you lately that I love you

Have I told you there’s no one above you

Fill my heart with gladness

Take away my sadness

Ease my troubles, that’s what you do

Take away my sadness

Fill my life with gladness

Ease my troubles that’s what you do

Fill my life with gladness

Take away my sadness

Ease my troubles that’s what you do