To Give You a Song

I would like to give you a song.
Not the one that goes you must never leave me baby
And I hate to see you go.
Not the one with a refrain
About your loving arms again,
So I’ll celebrate your beauty.
But the words are hard to find.
They’ve been used a hundred times
And somehow don’t belong.
Still I would like to give you a song.
I would like to give you a song.
Not the kind baby you must take me to the sea,
I know where the ocean lies.
I don’t want to tell you that my heart belongs to Daddy,
It is you who are my prize.
Maybe I should sing of how your love thrills me here and now.
That you are, when you are there, the way you are.
But the clichés have their way.
Everything I try to say seems wrong.
Still I would like to give you a song.