Give Me Love

by Abby Dobson (Abby Dobson)

give me peace, deep in my heart

give me succour, give me art

give me back my innocent demeanour

 

give me a house up on the hill where i can find my higher will

and let it rain so that i might feel cleaner

 

and give me faith in humankind

and give me longer summer time

and give me time to take in all this beauty

 

and give me the strength of my convictions

give me a break from these afflictions

and days when i don’t feel all this duty

 

and if you can’t do that

just give me love

and if you can’t do that

just give me love

 

and give me kisses down my neck

oh give me a man with genuflects

who whispers things that i cannot say to you

yeah give me a man i can admire

and tie me to his open fire

in afternoons of naked hallelujah

 

(x2)

and if you can’t do that

just give me love

and if you can’t do that

just give me love

 

ahhhhh

ahhhhh

 

and give me back my liberty to languor in the poetry

and let me swim in oceans of your making

 

and give me friends that make me laugh

who pull me through the aftermath

please please give me a heart that don’t keep breaking

 

(x2)

and if you can’t do that

just give me love

and if you can’t do that

just give me love