Love Is Everything (Jane Siberry)

Maybe it was to learn how to love

Maybe it was to learn how to leave

Or maybe it was for the games that we played

Maybe it was to learn how to choose

Maybe it was to learn how to lose

Or maybe it was for love that we made

Love was everything they said it would be

Love made sweet and sad the same

You're chickening out aren't you?

You're bangin' on the beach like an old tin drum

I can't wait for you to make

The whole kingdom come

So I'm leaving

Maybe it was to learn how to fight

Maybe it was to lessen our pride

Or maybe it's just nature's way

Maybe it was to learn how to laugh

Maybe it was to learn to cry

Or maybe it was for the love that we made

Love was everything they said it would be

Love made sweet and sad the same

You're chickening out aren't you?

You're bangin' on the beach like an old tin drum

I can't wait for you to make

The whole kingdom come

So I'm leaving

First I turn to you

Then I turn away

So you try to hurt me back

Oh it breaks your body down

So you try to love bigger

Better still

But it's too late

So take a lesson from the strangeness you feel

And know you'll never be the same

And find it in your heart to kneel down and say

I gave my love didn't I?

And I gave it big sometimes

And I gave it in my own sweet time

I'm just leaving

I'm just leaving