little mermaid

I gave it all just for your love
My family, my home, to live above
And yet you turn your back on me
I cannot speak, but can’t you see?
You are the only one for me
We are a match made perfectly
I came up here to live above
I gave it all to get your love.

Sun burns my skin
Wind chills my bones
But your smile warms my heart
The voices are strange
The bodies are stranger
Doing things I can’t even start
I can’t live without you
So I come to live with you
In a land I just can’t fit in
But you find my poor body
Dried out on the beach
This is where we begin

I gave it all just for your love
My family, my home, to live above
And yet you turn your back on me
I cannot speak, but can’t you see?
You are the only one for me
We are a match made perfectly
I came up here to live above
I gave it all to get your love.

You taught me to read
I don’t seem to learn
I don’t care, as long as you’re near
I listen to songs
But can’t sing along
I have words that you’ll never hear.
I take timid steps
And you hold my hand
Those tingles run down through my toes
You tell me the story
About me of course
But that fact, nobody knows

Yes I saved you that night
I gave you your life
But that moment you jump started mine
I turned away from the sea
But you can’t seem to see me.
You forever remain to be blind.

I gave it all just for your love
My family, my home, to live above
And yet you turn your back on me
I cannot speak, but can’t you see?
You are the only one for me
We are a match made perfectly
I came up here to live above
I gave it all to get your love.

One more girl, you say
Then after that,
If she’s not right, you will pick me
A sweet kiss on my mouth
Makes my whole soul arouse
One more day! Then how happy we’ll be!

I see her brown eyes
And long flowing hair
When your face lights up, then I know
She looks just like…me
And what else should you think?
Those feelings I finally show.
I watched as you kissed
Your marital bliss
My body fades with the night
My broken down heart
Cries tears in the dawn
I can’t believe this is right.

I came up here to live above
I gave it all to get your love.