Late Have I Loved You
• Written by CallPaul
CallPaul's Notes
Any constructive critique is welcome.
Worked on my delivery, production, and rhyme structures.
/ inspired by a poem from St. Augustine
// HOOK
Late have I loved [you],
Beauty so old, and so [new]:
Late have I loved you
You flew through my [soul]
Beauty you [know] how I screwed [up]
when I look [back] I just wanna [go]
i only work [for], making a [buck]
I am in a [war], without no gun
with no stupid luck
Beauty so old, and so new:
Late have I loved you
Late have I loved you
// VERSE 1
Look and [see], you were inside of [me]
like a [deep] [seed] in a chest-nut [tree]
I was so curled in the outside world
And sought you [there],yeah I was in the [snare]
I was [afraid], sitting on my rocking [chair]
and my coward [prayer], only done in [despair]
Need to be [fair] how little have I [cared]
//he comes the cross rhyme
And in my unlovely, that ugly [state]
place full of [hate], someone has [drugged me]
[dug me] a nice [grave], said it was [great]
told me it was my [fate], coffin [in-graved]
i was [enslaved], lost all of my [faith]
I [flinged] into created [things]
like a gymnast [clings] and [swings] on the [rings]
free like the [winds] and big like the [kings],
pulling peoples lives, like puppets on the [strings]
lovely formed [things] your holy hands [made]
you have [laid] on me, made it [pervade]
all to [persuade] me to love you
/hook
Lovely things kept me far from you [grace]
thought I was an [Ace], truth was a [disgrace]
to stand before your holy and bright [face]
to stand in your [embrace], for all of my [days]
// VERSE 2 - Rhyme scheme much slower
You called and cried my name out [loud]
And shattered my Armour filled with [deafness]
picked me out from the anonymous [crowd]
Yeah I am [reckless] kept me like your son
with such a [deftness] you made me [deathless],
made me feel [proud] made my life [endless],
as I see you bowed [down] and praying, your [face]
seems like a sun
pink to so [light] puts my blindness to [flight]
I have tasted you,
And I feel but hunger and thirst for you.
You touched me,
And I am set on fire
to attain the peace
which is yours to give to those who [came]
I am done, may my heart rest in your [name]
//hook
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CallPaul
Member since July 31 2016