I Want To Fall In Love With You
I Want (To Fall In Love With You) This is how the title SHOULD look!
I want to fall in love with you
I know that’s what you want too
Yet still I hold back and hesitate
On becoming fully intimate
As much as my heart and body say
It will be fine; it’ll be okay.
Still, though, I cower and hide
From openly standing at your side
In this supposed enlightened age
There are those that we will enrage
For our kind of love is still too often seen
As vile and dirty, unnatural and obscene
Although we’re careful and show respect
People still complain and object.
They call us names that are hard to hear
And leave me trembling with fear
I know my feelings are real and true
And I so much want to be with you
But until I’m sure that we can be together
In safety and comfort for forever
I’ll have to deny and repress
My hopes for lasting happiness
As a gay man in a society
That won’t allow our love to be.
I want to fall in love with you
There’s nothing more I want to do
For too long now I have lived a lie
And no matter how hard I try
To ignore the feelings that fill my heart
It’s fear that is keeping us apart
I want you and need and love you too:
Oh, dear God, what am I going to do?
Copyright © Andy Morfett | Year Posted 2016
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