Love Me More

Bluegrass Gospel Lyric

I wandered off early

From the land of my birth,

Leaving God-fearin' people,

Trully salt of the earth.

Traded comfort for sunshine

The horizon ahead.

Wherever I slept was

The size of my bed.

You see a face that is weathered,

These eyes have grown dim.

For too long a feather

Ridin' the wind.

Through breakin' of dawns to breakin' of bread,

I bestow a few stories

Of the lives that I've led.

Love Me More or

Please, love me less,

Degrees do not matter

For I have been blessed.

You offer shelter

I cannot ignore.

So love me less or

Please, Love Me More.

I stole through the cornfields

Like I's made of straw,

Leavin' no footprints,

On account of the law.

Church steeple to flophouse,

Purveyin' White Dove.

Both sinner and saint

All needing my love.

Once walked on fire

Under the spell of a wraith,

Built towering castles

On illusion of faith.

So long had I quarried

For too little stone,

Every arrogant standing

Ends eventually prone.

Love Me More or

Please, love me less,

Lay me down easy

In your sweet caress.

You offer shelter

I cannot ignore.

So, love me less or

Please, Love Me More.

Made way down a river

Where once Iroquois prowled,

Peregrine falcoln and Burrowing Owl.

Dark waters they pulled me

Along through the pall

With a red moon arisin'

Takin' stock of it all.

Tracked puma and cougar,

Hunted elk and red deer,

Followed a hunger

While swallowing fear.

Was it winter's approaching,

That goaded me to

Rising smoke from a canyon

And the wonder of you?

Love Me More or

Please, love me less

This body's tired

I must confess.

My journey has ended

Right here at your door.

So love me less or

Please, Love Me More.

Love me less or

Please, Love Me More.