As My Debt Grows, So My Love Does, Too

Music: Down by the Sally Gardens.
Sequenced by Barry Taylor.

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As my debt grows, so my love does, too.
What you give I cannot half repay.
Your love for me inflames my love for you.

I can't help being moody, often blue,
Irritable, anxious, sad, and yet you stay.
As my debt grows, so my love does, too.

I know I'm lucky to have someone who
Will love me through this, day by troubled day.
Your love for me inflames my love for you.

Gifts like yours to me do not accrue.
Still, it's hard when giving goes one way.
As my debt grows, so my love does, too.

Yet unlike money, love is never due.
Its return is free, in just the way
Your love for me inflames my love for you,

A natural grace, making one of two.
And so this darkness has its own bright ray:
As my debt grows, so my love does, too;
Your love for me inflames my love for you.

Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.

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