To Give You a Song

I would like to give you a song.

Not the one that goes you must never leave me baby

And I hate to see you go.

Not the one with a refrain

About your loving arms again,

So I'll celebrate your beauty.

But the words are hard to find.

They've been used a hundred times

And somehow don't belong.

Still I would like to give you a song.

I would like to give you a song.

Not the kind baby you must take me to the sea,

I know where the ocean lies.

I don't want to tell you that my heart belongs to Daddy,

It is you who are my prize.

Maybe I should sing of how your love thrills me here and now.

That you are, when you are there, the way you are.

But the clichés have their way.

Everything I try to say seems wrong.

Still I would like to give you a song.