In 2012 I took a songwriting course led by John Vallins in Bellingen, NSW. During the course we were assigned the task of writing a song around a prompt supplied by John. The prompt that generated this song was “Love Lies Bleeding”.
After the course finished John took some initial recordings done at the time and turned them into this song.
Contrary to popular belief, this isn’t a song about a child or a lover. This is a song about the the stages a relationship goes through over time.
Kiss it Better
Verse 1:
New love like a new born child
Do anything just to make her smile
She keeps me on my feet
And makes my life complete
But she’s just a little baby for a while
Verse 2:
A couple of years she’s a two year old
Practicing the art of saying no
There’s a touch of power play
And watching what you say
And working out where love is meant to go
Chorus:
Watching my love grow every day
She takes a few wrong steps along the way
If my love lies bleeding I’ll always say
I will kiss it better in every way
Verse 3:
At 7 love’s a thing to behold
No longer young but hardly old
She wants to get around
And she’s harder to hold down
At 7 love won’t do what she’s told
Verse 4:
A teenage love is hard to explain
At times a teenage love forgets its name
By the time that you’re fifteen
You’d think you’d know what love should mean
But love will keep you guessing just the same
Chorus:
Watching my love grow every day
She takes a few wrong steps along the way
If my love lies bleeding I’ll always say
I will kiss it better in every way
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