Inspirational Lyrics

[Aephion]

Steven Lynch, for those who don't know him, has written some very good, intriguing lyrics (until he chops off all that was pretty about it with a blunt axe to make room for an even blunter joke)

However, lyrics like the following are inspiring, at least to me

"If I had a hammer, I would build a house for two
And if I had a sailing ship, I'd take a trip with you.
Oh, if I had a poet's hand, I'd write a verse for thee
And if I had a painter's touch, on canvas you would be.

But I don't have a hammer and I don't have a ship,
So I can't build a house and we can't take a trip.
I'll never be a poet, nor have a painter's grace,
So I cannot write your verse, nor immortalize your face."

This little lovesong he wrote is really nice, imho, but it also seems unfinished to me.
What would you write, to complete it (other than "Also I have herpes", with which Steven finishes it >.>)

[Shiva]

They are lovely lyrics. They are the sort of lyrics that make me sit back and think...

Which song are they from?

[sallytree]

In thinking about these lyrics I was reminded of two poems with a similar idea of inadequacy to express love the way one would like. Both of them "finish" with the gift of oneself, or something very dear to oneself:

From "In the Bleak Midwinter" by Christina Rossetti:

What can I give Him,
Poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd
I would bring a lamb,
If I were a wise man
I would do my part,
Yet what I can I give Him,
Give my heart.

Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
by W. B. Yeats
Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams