Gloria Smith - I Love You Lyrics

I Love You by Gloria Smith

I love you with a love no mere words could hold
More than the breath that courses through my lungs
More than the blood that courses through my veins
I would give my gift of life for you, to you
And all I have and all I own and then my soul
My life has become yours and yours alone
And all the world is colored by your smile
The sun and moon shine in your ice blue eyes
My heart sings your name in every lilting beat
And in the night I dream of tender love
If I wanted you less would you want me more
Alone I yearn I learn the pain of desire
Of unquenched fire burning
Sure fire that nothing can extinguish
I scheme for you and crave none other
As flowers save their blossoms for the sun
And yet... love has declined my tender offers
It takes me roughly, unrestrained love is feigned
Nothing true nothing pure a Lion's roar
Nothing more and still I stay to live in endless hope
Impossible hope glorious despair in your arms
Fate has not been gracious or kind but mean and cruel
I am a fool a mad little fool blind and lost
Tossed about on an undulating sea of loneliness
My heart swells and crashes on your shore
I am only whole in your arms in fleeting moments
Of blissful happiness dizzying heights of madness
And all my heart, my soul, my love is unreturned
I wander lost sailing my heart upon an ocean of tears
Sails full of fear tempest tossed not counting the cost
I have lost myself flushed with love my lips apart
My mouth for yours my love, my heart
You murmur my name and whisper my shame
You stroke my hair and I'm aflame and once again
I wish your hands upon my skin again... again
And I will die once more each time a little more
When I leave I will grieve for your precious love
I will never receive my chest heaves I swallow tears
I taste my shame and still my heart is graven
With your name, and how I wish it not to be
In silence my heart screams in silence it goes mad
If you were to die I would give you my very breath
To make you live and my last breath would be my gift
Without regret and then you'd know beyond all doubt
I love you with a love no mere words could hold