Love Grows Love

you said to "put on a happy face"

on a high school stage

but I read what you really meant

in your handwriting on a Bible page

you waited like you told me

though we knew it right away,

it took eight and a half more years

to finally say

I fell in love with you

and that love became something new

it keeps getting stronger

than we ever could have longed

love keeps growing more love

when we got the news

we had to call our families

and start painting the room

a nice, bright blue

our vows they started breathing

and they took on flesh and blood

and we held them in our arms

and tasted God was good

I fell in love with you

and that love became something new

it added a name and it added a smile

it keeps getting bigger every further mile

there on your bended knee

we sewed the seeds of our history

they're coming up stronger

than we ever could have longed

love keeps growing more love

if love is an echo of the heart

the heart is a canyon

that stretches wild and free

without an end

and breaks through every wall

that holds us in

I'm on the other side of the world

to see what changed you so

my heart breaks with the broken

and it dances with the hope

you told me I would find here

but I could not understand

until I'm walking here beside you

hand in hand

Words and Music by Andrew Osenga (c) 2007 House of Mirrors Music (ASCAP) admin. by Simpleville Music, Inc.