Love and the Fool - Lyrics and free song link

[Verse 1]

You gave me all your love

Heart and mind and soul

Nothing held back from the start

And it overwhelmed my heart

[Verse 2]

Yours was selfless, unconditional

I saw not you, but fantasy

You longed to build a quiet home

I longed for us to fly, and be free

[Verse 3]

You were a woman, I a boy

Not in age, but maturity

I heard you speak your truth to me

Through tears I could not see

[Verse 4]

I loved you more than life itself

As much as I could give

But not enough beyond myself

To love as you loved me

[Chorus]

I loved you more than life

But not more than myself

I should have loved you more

Or learned to let you go

[Verse 5]

I heard you—but I didn’t see

The pain beneath your words

I should have listened with my heart

Not only what I heard

[Verse 6]

I would have died for you back then

I'd die for you right now

And yet I broke your quiet hope

I just don’t know quite how

[Verse 7]

I should have loved you more than me

Or set your spirit free

But I held on too blindly

To what I wished to be

[Chorus]

I loved you more than life

But not more than myself

I should have loved you more

Or learned to let you go

[Bridge – sparse, emotional, slower phrasing]

[Verse 8]

I planted love in fallow ground

Mistook your tears for rain

And what we grew was something wild

That only brought us pain

[Verse 9]

Our orchard stands in ruin now

Overgrown with my neglect

The fault is mine, the shame is mine

And this I can’t correct

[Final Chorus – fuller, more intensity]

I loved you more than life

But not more than myself

I should have loved you more

Or learned to let you go

[Verse 10]

I’ll love you every day I breathe

And after breath is gone

But love alone could not repair

The harm that I have done

[Outro – breathy, stripped down]

So we go on from day to day

With tears we cannot hide

And live within the quiet truth

Of what we both let die

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