I Can't Write A Love Song Lyrics

I'm stunned stock still locked into place

A pen stuck here on the blankest page

Watch this guy stand in front of this girl

Asking her how can this boy meet her world

But all the standard replies feel so wrong

You are worth far more than sonnets and song

Still I can't find the right words to say

Should I compare thee to a warm summers day

I'm wracking my brains to death

For answers I hope correct

Of ideas I'm left bereft

For all ways to put it the best

Sincerity, I've never given quite so easily

And the lack of opportunity has me awake at night

The clarity leaves my brain when you're close to me

And God I'm asking cos I can't write a love song

No matter how hard I try

Even now I still sing bout myself

Each word costing to my mental health

But fighting frustrations I'm buried in question

Of accolades that you deserve

But still, I'm lost for words

Or would a canon in D progression

Lead to progress or a shattering escalation

Would expectation of an overused cliche

Only get in all our way of a truth I find hard to phrase

The Irony has only poisoned sensitivity

And the lack of vulnerability has me awake at night

The scrutiny floods my brain when you are close to me

And God I'm praying cos I can't write a love song

Not even to save my life

And the times that I fumbled

Make me wanna tear out my eyes

Sincerity, I've never given quite so easily

And the lack of opportunity has me awake at night

The clarity leaves my brain when you're close to me

And God I'm asking cos I can't write a love song

No matter how hard I try

Epiphany that the offset of my chivalry

And my total immaturity has me alone at night

But your sympathy has me fighting insecurity

And while I can't write a love song

Not even to save my life

For you I'll try write a love song

If it's the last thing before I die