Tenderly With You

I don't mind the years gone by when I think I'm getting better

I don't mind to fall so far when I think I can get up

But I mind the anger I have learned to acquire

And I mind the tough I've growth to wear around like armor

I could live with out you but I don't want to try

I could do it all alone but what would it prove and why



To get beyond our proud and tough

And learn when tenderly enough

I just want to be tenderly with you

I just want to be tenderly with you



When I was a little girl my mother would brush my hair

Now I've learned to brush my own and act like I don't care

And say, "It's not so hard to be so strong"

And do what's right even when they say it's wrong

Yet there days I'd just like to belong



Somewhere

I just want to be tenderly with you

I just want to be tenderly with you

Must we always hurt the ones we love

Does push always heave to come to shove

I just don't believe that's true



There's a hundred ways to guard your heart, if you really want to know

There's a thousand way to stay at arms length if you really wish it so

But I have found that sure resolve, a mystery I'm going to solve

And a hard shell I will dissolve