| I don’t mind the years gone by
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| When I think I’m getting better
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| I don’t mind to fall so far
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| When I think I can get up
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| But I mind the anger
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| I have learned to acquire
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| And I mind the tough
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| I’ve growth to wear around like armor
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| I could live with out you
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| But I don’t want to try
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| I could do it all alone
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| But what would it prove and why
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| To get beyond our proud and tough
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| And learn when tenderly enough
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| I just want to be tenderly with you
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| I just want to be tenderly with you
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| When I was a little girl
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| My mother would brush my hair
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| Now I’ve learned to brush my own
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| And act like I don’t care
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| And say, «It's not so hard to be so strong»
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| And do what’s right
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| Even when they say it’s wrong
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| Yet there days I’d just like to belong
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| Somewhere, I just want to be tenderly with you
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| I just want to be tenderly with you
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| Must we always hurt the ones we love
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| Does push always heave to come to shove
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| I just don’t believe that’s true
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| There’s a hundred ways to guard your heart
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| If you really want to know
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| There’s a thousand way to stay at arms length
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| If you really wish it so
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| But I have found that sure resolve
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| A mystery I’m going to solve
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| And a hard shell I will dissolve |