When Love Was Just A Word

When love was just a word
It was all so black and white
At the bottom of a card, in the prayers i said each night
It was everywhere around me, what i’d read, what i’d heard
I was only half alive when love, was just a word

When you were just a dream
I was always in control
Never knew the sweet surrender, of my body and my soul
I never knew such longing
Or how much i could hurt
But i was only half alive when love was just

A word
That’s all it was for years
I was sure it wasn’t meant for me
Now every time, you whisper it in my ear
It’s more like a symphony

And sometimes it overwhelms me
All these feelings you have stirred
Oh i was only half alive when love was just a word
I was only half alive
When love
Was just
A word