Because I love you
I will hold your soft hand
Through the sweet winter breeze
With our toes treading sand

Because I love you
I will place your lips on mine
It'll feel so free
Since you're my valentine

Because I love you
I will always be around
I will sing songs for you
As the sun drifts down

Because I love you
I'll always be your glue
We will never choose to part
All my time I give you

Because I love you
I want us to be perfect
We'll do all that it takes
To make us appear worth it

Because I love you
All your secrets become told
We can't let us be private
Or our love might go cold

Because I love you
I can't let you be around other guys
I'm afraid they'd coerce you
Into leaving from my side

Because I love you
I raise my voice when you mess up
I only want to know
That you're able to learn your lessons

Because I love you
Your face lost its glimmer
You haven't seemed healthy
As you grow to be thinner

Because I love you
You just left me alone
Made me unlock the door
Going forth as your own

Because I love you
I feel so departed
I search deep inside me
To see how this started

Because I love you
I've gone so bananas
The innocence is lost
That we had in the first stanza

Because I love you
I had to let you go
In steps I controlled you
Falling down a slippery slope

Because I love you...
These words lost their meaning!
From an innocent cadence
To a phrase so demeaning

Because I love you
I wish I could start over
With you there on the beach
Watching waves go crash over

But my fate has been sealed
And I've lost you forever
So I hope your next man
May only treat you better

Because he loves you...