Some Thoughts on Love (Keep Trying)

Oh, I see
I just can't believe
The way you're changing me
Just to see your pretty smile
Even if only for a while
I'll keep trying

There are so many beautiful people out there who deserve so much love
And I wish I'd given all of myself to at least one of you
Because for years I've been too blind to see
That the world isn't actually that cold
And even though we're not all hugging all the time
There's so much love

And sure,There's so much loneliness too
And there's loneliness in me
And in you
And I've got to wake up and realise
I need to speak honestly, speak true

I wish I could love you in a way where I'd never let go
I wish you could teach me how to love you
Like I do in my thoughts
I ought to give it a try
Give you a smile

At night, I find myself crying for every person who's never felt I truly loved them
I want to go back in time and cook you breakfast when we wake up together
I want to make sure we spend new years and every other holiday together and make Gure We kiss, kiss more, kiss enough
I want to go back and hold your hand during sad or scary movies
But also everywhere and anytime else
And I should've offered you my love when you were lonely, even though I was colder then

And honestly, the cold made me feel alive, then
But maybe I should've been alive for you, then

Oh, I see
I just can't believe
The way you're changing me
Just to see your pretty smile
Even if only for a while
I'll keep trying

I wish we'd shared more desserts
I wish we'd sat on more benches and told each other stories
I wish I'd always held you when you cried at night
I wish I spent less time telling you the world was shit
I wish I spent less time being scared
I wish I spent less time in the dark
Looking for something that was right in front of me

I've always wanted love
And wanted to be love
But I never managed to do it
'Cause it was terrifying for me to love and to be loved

And saying you love someone is easy
I've done it a million times and mostly meant it
But loving someone is hard
And being loved is maybe harder
Knowing they're there when you need it
And before you know you need it is
Almost impossible

But if I, at least I, keep trying my best to be
The best I can be
Maybe it's not only possible
But real

Your love made me want to be the best version of myself
For you and for myself
And I know
My words are not love and
Saying you're in love is not love and
All the trying in the world is not love
Unless you're trying
From love

Oh, I see
I just can't believe
The way you're changing me
Just to see your pretty smile
Even if only for a while
I'll keep trying

'Cause you showed me so much love in the ways you tried
And I always saw, even if I didn't know
How to let it show

Love was when you
Tried to make me laugh
Tried to make me smile

It was when you
Tried to remember the little things and
Tried to remember the big things
Tried to remember the things that scared me when I was little
And the things that scare me now

It was trying to remember if I liked you more in flat shoes or in heels
And it was when you always looked hella cute in a skirt
Love was when you tried to notice that I was trying
It was trying to see that I did my best
And giving me the benefit of the doubt

It was when you were trying to see the best of me
Even when that was still under lock and key

You were always trying to love
And I loved you for trying

Oh, I see
I just can't believe
The way you're changing me
Just to see your pretty smile
Even if only for a while
I'll keep trying

You know what?

I don't wanna run away anymore
I wanna buy a little farmhouse in the country
And get a flock of chickens
I wanna wake up in the same bed
Every day
Next to someone who tries
And I'm finally trying for

Let's put on gloves and tend to the garden
Let's put on wellies and walk through the mud in the danish summer rain
Let's pick some berries and make jam 'till our shelves are full
And then let's make some more for our neighbours and friends

Let's still have days and days on the couch
Watching our favorite films and holding hands
And let's have nights where we dance
To all our favorite bands

Let's be mortal and let's be real
Let's keep trying and
Let our world heal

I keep saying I never tried
But I don't even know if that's true, all right?
Maybe I was always doing the best I could
Maybe I just didn't succeed as well as I would
If I knew then
What I know now
And I could even make it rhyme
But that's the thing about time
It only comes when it wants and leaves too fast
So we gotta keep trying to make it last

I'll keep trying
Cause I try to love
And I really do love trying
And even though I fail
I've tried to write this album
And it may come to no avail
I hope I can tell you all I'm sorry
Everyone I've hurt and left behind
Everyone who met me when I wasn't kind
'Cause somewhere in here is a beautiful
Something
Who may one day write some beautiful words about you
And maybe they're already written
Maybe they're well hidden
Between the lines
Or in other times

Oh, I see
I just can't believe
The way you're changing me
Just to see your pretty smile
Even if only for a while
I'll keep trying

But if I get a chance to love you truly
I'll kiss you on the shoulder
And draw star signs on your back with the tips of my fingers
And I'll whisper nonsense when you cry late at night

And I hope you get to see yourself as only a lover could ever see you

As a person willing to try to love
And who loves to try

As an infinitely deep lake under a moonlit sky

As a window into my soul and into everyone I've ever loved
'Cause parts of them pour out of me
Every day
In the small things
And the big things
And you know the rest

I hope that the next time I love
I'll try my best
And if I ever need reminding
I hope you'll remind me

'Cause I want to love you

And thank you for trying to let me

Oh, I see
I just can't believe
The way you're changing me
Just to see your pretty smile
Even if only for a while
I'll keep trying

Oh, I see
I just can't believe
The way you're changing me
Just to see your pretty smile
Even if only for a while
I'll keep trying