city sidewalks run around crowds
lonely faces wear their cares out loud
i’m out here walking on the concrete ground
listening to the silent sounds
it’s hard to mend a broken heart
you always finish but you just can’t start
to put back together what you took apart
i’ve such a lonely heart
and i thank you for loving me
thank you for loving me
thank you for loving me
the way you do
i won’t be building mansions
i’m tearing down walls
i’ll learn to walk before i learn to crawl
my life’s my own now i embrace it all
it’s your name that i call
and i thank you for loving me. . .
teach me how to grow so deep and wide
branches reaching out across the sky
i’ll woo you like a willow on a summer night
and love you whether you laugh or cry
let’s never say goodbye
i want to be a giving tree
you heal all the feelings rooted inside me
i taste the beauty of inner symmetry
when i feel your love for me
and i thank you for loving me. . .
i love you too you too you too
– bob campbell © 1980