Lyrics

Verse 1
You keep saying you can handle
Every burden by yourself
But I see the tired man
You keep hiding from everybody else
You don’t have to stay composed here
You don’t have to prove you’re strong
Lay that weight down for a moment
You have carried it too long
I’m not trying to change you
Or take control of your life
I just want to give you something
You don’t have to earn tonight
Chorus
Let me love you my way
Slow enough to reach your heart
Let me hold the man you are
Not the role you learned to play
Let me love you my way
Without making you explain
I can touch the places in you
That have only known the strain
Come closer
Trust what I say
Let me love you
Let me love you my way
Verse 2
I know somebody disappointed you
And made tenderness feel weak
Now you answer every feeling
With the silence that you keep
But I’m not asking for forever
Before morning comes around
I’m asking you to feel the difference
When real care is what you’ve found
I can be the woman listening
When your pride won’t let you speak
I can bring you something gentle
Without asking you to shrink
Chorus
Let me love you my way
Slow enough to reach your heart
Let me hold the man you are
Not the role you learned to play
Let me love you my way
Without making you explain
I can touch the places in you
That have only known the strain
Come closer
Trust what I say
Let me love you
Let me love you my way
Bridge — Soft Gospel Responses
Lead: I don’t need to own you
Background: She just wants to know you
Lead: I don’t need to lead you
Background: She can walk beside you
Lead: I don’t need perfection
Background: Just give her something true
Lead: I only want the honest man
That fear keeps covering from view
You can bring me every question
You can bring me every scar
I won’t measure your tomorrow
By the mistakes that made you hard
Final Chorus
Let me love you my way
With no pressure in my hands
Let me show you that a woman
Can protect and understand
Let me love you my way
Till your breathing settles down
Till you stop expecting sorrow
Every time love comes around
Come closer
You’re safe to stay
Let me love you
Let me love you my way
Outro — Restrained Ad-libs
You don’t have to fight me, baby
I came to give
Not take
I came to know
Not judge
Let me be gentle
Where life was not
Let me love you
My way