Original Blues, Rock & Country for the Soul
Story behind the song
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Lyrics
'I Can't Give You Love'
You, a reverie a' you, n' half a dime a' blue
N' more to keep it true...
You, takes time to make love grow,
You, you oughta know
But you don't let it go...
Damn I thought we wrote the song
The one we called our own
Now maybe it's too long...
Hell, if only I had known
The seeds that we had sown
Had taken up and flown...
Wild, wilder than the sea
It's you that's holdin' me
N' I don't have the heart to tell you, love
Love it ain't enough
No way is it enough
N' I can't give you, I can't give you
I can't give you love...
Tamed, broken and inspired, wasted in the fire
But I had my day...
Shamed, poets of the light
N' if I had to fight
Well it was my way...
Steel, metal is the word, for things that go unheard
You gotta bury pain
No, I never knew the way
An' I couldn't save the day
But I won't be here again...
Wild, wilder than the sea
It's you that's holdin' me
N' I don't have the heart to tell you, love
Love it ain't enough
It never was enough
N' I can't give you, I can't give you
I can't give you love...
Talk, talk to me n' say, you did alright ok
It's only what the folks, the folks round here they say
In the greater need, it's you that dropped the seed
Everybody bleeds n' everybody needs...
Everybody needs...
Wild, wilder than the sea
It's you that's holdin' me
N' I don't have the heart to tell you, love
Love it ain't enough
It never was enough
N' I can't give you, I can't give you
I can't give you love...
Wild, wilder than the sea
It's you that's holdin' me
N' I can't give you, I can can't give you
I can't give you, love, wilder than the sea
It's you that's holdin' me,
N' I can't give you, I can't give you,
I can't give you love...I can't give you love,
No I can't give you love, don't ask me for my love..
Don't ask me for my love, I can't give you love,
I can't give you love, I can't give you love...
© Maria Daines/Paul Killington
