I've been tending to my garden

Found and pulled out all the weeds

But with my flowers I'm finding issues at my roots

So please oh please just bear with me

You your growth has seemed so perfect

But I've told you tending's been so hard

Maybe we can work this out and try to help each other now

To ease the burden weighing on our hearts

I think I'm finding out the way to be a better man

And it's been all done at your side in ways I've never planned

But I know it's gonna take some time

To figure out the rhythm of our rhyme

So I just wanna be gentle with you

Grow old and grow better with you

We'll figure this out together

I know we can last forever

So I just wanna be gentle with you

You're so good at staying open

Soft untangling your vines

I see you pull too hard at tender stems you guard

Just be patient 'cus love is not a straight line

We bend and shift inside each moment

Find what hurts in what's been broken before

But if we talk our way through all the pain

Remind ourselves there's beauty in the chaos

Like roses loving all our thorns

Building love together never goes the way I planned

I know it isn't easy but it's worth it in the end

If we stay the course and take our time

We'll settle in the rhythm of our rhyme

Oh I just wanna be gentle with you

Grow old and grow better with you

We'll figure this out together

I know we can last forever

I just wanna be gentle with you

I wanna revel in all you are

Find wonder in all your scars

Step into this love of ours

And hold you through the dark

And I will be gentle with you

Grow old and grow better with you

We'll figure this out together

I know we can last forever

So I just wanna be gentle with you

I just wanna be gentle with you

Grow old and grow better with you

We'll figure this out together

I know we can last forever

I just wanna be gentle with you