Why buy you gifts and cards

they don’t know you like I do
Why buy you perfumes and jewelry
I like the smell on your skin
And the glint in your eyes
Why do they try to convince you otherwise
Don’t they know the strength that lies within you


Material things we can get
Things we might struggle to afford
Are yet the things that we measure his compassion on
How unfair my love
How misguided our lust for love
How wrong is what we think we know 
Even when it stares us right into our eyes


I have known you better than they can
Spent more time with you
More than they’ll ever share
Looked into your heart
deeper than any could reach
yet they govern how my love for you
Should be, how unfair my love for you


All I want from you is you
To sing songs and dance for you
Recite poems and act for you
tell stories and tell jokes for you
And make you laugh and smile
All for you. how cheap my love
For you