#valentine #acousticonetake #lovesong #baritoneukulele

I wrote a draft of this for my wife for our 8th wedding anniversary in September. Some of the lyrics never really worked and it needed a bridge, so finishing it for Valentimes 2026 💖

I still feel like there’s wayyyy too many different metaphors going on in the lyrics but I’m done messing with it. Also kinda wanted to do a version with percussion but couldn’t nail down a tempo and I kinda prefer to be able to speed up/slow down organically

Long-term relationships are complicated and rewarding and painful and joyful. Especially when you’re both neurodivergent but not in the same way 🤣 so you are constantly misunderstanding each other, but have also been through so much together that you understand each other better than anyone. <3

I don't know what to say You're my home, and I almost threw that away Everyone’s a vampire when I think they want my blood But I'm the creature hiding from the rising sun

You make me look

I think we both rushed in Wanted to be stable, but a planet has to spin Afraid of gravity but clung for all I'm worth Like Atlas getting pissed off that he chose to hold the Earth And I felt so attacked when you just wanted to be known Contacting the alien from mission control You had much to show me, I was scared of coming down Cuz humans really hurt me the last time around

You make me look, you make me look You make me look at the beauty in the world And when it overwhelms me, it's your heart that I have hurt You make me look, you make me look You make me look at the beauty with you I hope that someday I can see it too It's hard for me to see

I hope that I can be a better spouse I'm sorry I made you pick up the most recent dead mouse Your eyes were closed to some things too The way everything has to die before it’s born anew And you felt so abandoned when I needed to own My space, my quiet, and the contents of my soul Spoke different dialects that called each other names Til the plosives blew out the flame We'll wake it up, and tend it

And we'll look At the pain and the beauty in the world And you're the one I want to tell the next time I am hurt So come look, so come look At the pain and the beauty with me I wouldn't keep you from my deepest self

But it's hard for me When there are things I think that you don't wanna see And protecting myself's responsibility I took at much too young an age I'm in a self-made cage and I don't want you looking in

And it's hard for you When I can't chemically feel your excitement too I’m overwhelmed by glutamate But you don't need Perfection, just someone to who cares enough to see When no one's looking in

So make me look, so make me look At the pain and the beauty in the world Cuz I’m the one who holds your heart even when it hurts So make me look, so make me look At the pain and the beauty with you And do not keep me from your deepest self

And we'll look, and we’ll look At the pain and the beauty in the world And I will let you hold my heart even when it hurts So come look, so come look At the pain and the beauty with me I will not keep you from my deepest self

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