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Take My Arm
I’m hoping that there never comes a day
We end up forced to go in separate ways
Not long ago, I never would have known
How much you’d mean to me and just how much I’d grow
My heart is on my sleeve, please take my arm
In this cold hard world I’ve never felt so warm
And if in time you feel you have to leave
It’s yours to keep cause being close to you is all it needs
In spite of battles that you’ve had to face
I found peace in you, retained with grace
And it didn’t take me long realize
That home away from home inside your eyes
While what I’ve got to give may not be much
A shoulder, an ear; a gentle touch
I pray that some day you might come to find
A humble hide-away, returned in kind
My heart is on my sleeve, please take my arm
In this cold hard world I’ve never felt so warm
And if in time you feel you have to leave
It’s yours to keep cause being close to you is all it needs
In this day and age
some might say
it’s a projection
of my objective
That can’t be true
cause I never knew
what could be
since you’ve awakened me
My heart is on my sleeve, please take my arm
In this cold hard world I’ve never felt so warm
And if in time you feel you have to leave
It’s yours to keep; it’s yours to keep.
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3rd and 2nd to last lines could be compressed in 5 lines - odd. Less emotion, more a statement (unsentimental expression) of desire. Well writ! I liked the eyes images as home.
Lady A
Thank you for the comment; Reworked it, it's a song now:
It took a bit of reworking, but I actually recorded it and performed it for a songwriting class final in college a year or two ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zdxhbbYwEY
I just feel like sometimes, you can find a kind of peace in looking into the eyes of the right person, and a comfort that even the coziest, warmest circumstances can't seem to afford otherwise.
I can't sing and play bass at the same time, so I had to record it as a backtrack and play it through the sound system while I sang.
Happy holidays!
:)
That's so passionately written!