I love you deeply

 

[Verse]

I love you at ten in the morning, at eleven,

And at noon. I love you with all my soul and

With all my body, sometimes, on rainy afternoons.

But by two in the afternoon, or three, when I

Start to think about us, and you think about

Lunch, or the daily grind, or the joys you lack,

I begin to hate you, quietly, with

Half the hatred I keep for myself.

Then I go back to loving you, when we lie down and

I feel that you were made for me, that somehow

Your knee, your belly, tell me so, my hands

Convince me, and there's no better place

For me to come to, for me to go, than your

Body. You come to me, whole,

And for a moment, we both disappear,

Diving into the mouth of God, until I tell you

I’m hungry or tired.

[Chorus]

I love you deeply, fiercely, then,

Hating softly, once again.

[Verse]

Every day I love and hate you helplessly.

And there are also days, hours, when I

Don’t know you, when you’re as distant as another man’s woman.

I worry about other men, I worry about

Myself, my sorrows distract me.

It’s likely I don’t think of you for a long time.

So you see—who could love you less than I do, my love?

[Chorus]

I love you deeply, fiercely, then,

Hating softly, once again.