Tenderly With You - Carrie Newcomer

I don’t mind the years gone by

When I think I’m getting better

I don’t mind to fall so far

When I think I can get up

But I mind the anger

I have learned to acquire

And I mind the tough

I’ve growth to wear around like armor

I could live with out you

But I don’t want to try

I could do it all alone

But what would it prove and why

To get beyond our proud and tough

And learn when tenderly enough

I just want to be tenderly with you

I just want to be tenderly with you

When I was a little girl

My mother would brush my hair

Now I’ve learned to brush my own

And act like I don’t care

And say, «It's not so hard to be so strong»

And do what’s right

Even when they say it’s wrong

Yet there days I’d just like to belong

Somewhere, I just want to be tenderly with you

I just want to be tenderly with you

Must we always hurt the ones we love

Does push always heave to come to shove

I just don’t believe that’s true

There’s a hundred ways to guard your heart

If you really want to know

There’s a thousand way to stay at arms length

If you really wish it so

But I have found that sure resolve

A mystery I’m going to solve

And a hard shell I will dissolve