Labour Of Love
by Peter Hammill
From the album: Patience
Track 1 of 8 on Patience (1983).
Duration: 5:55
Lyrics for Labour Of Love
You don't remember all the things I've done; You never catch the careful words I choose; Your present will not admit my patient efforts... It's a labour of love I offer to you. Unselfishness, does that hold the space between us? A helplessness, a nothing-left-to-prove? A silence more eloquent than any passion? It's a labour of love I offer to you... It's a labour of love. It's a gift of love. Take this hand and you will hold its stories; Beat, the heart, and find the tell-tale truth; Take this gift: – receipt will give it value. It's a labour of love I offer to you, It's a labour of love. It's a gift of love.