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#BecuaseILoveYou


I wake up in the morning

Not feeling the day, not even feeling life in general

“Why should I get up today?”

“Because I love you,” you say.

 

As I drag my feet along the floor

Only wanting to go home

“Why should I continue?”

“Because I love you,” you say.

 

Life would be so much better if I could just get into a terrible accident

“Drive safe.”

“Why should I?”

“Because I love you,” you say.

 

As the world falls apart around me

And nothing seems to go my way

“Why should I continue living?’

“Because I love you,” you say.

 

It’s always been you

Keeping me going through

Never letting me give up

“Because I love you,” you say.

 

When the struggles of the world

Feel heavy on my shoulders

You take some of my pain and put it onto your back

“Because I love you,” you say.

 

When I push you away

You come back once more

Never letting me shut the door

“Because I love you,” you say.

 

You stick around when I don’t deserve it

You put up with so much of my crap

“Why do you stay?”

“Because I love you,” you say.

 

When I don’t know what to do

When I don’t know where to go

When I can’t find my purpose to carry on

“Because I love you,” you say.

 

And when you feel you aren’t enough

To keep me going each day

You ask, “Why do you stay on this broken world?”

“Because I love you,” I say.

 

And that is that, and nothing more,

Just you and I

Taking on the world.

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