Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

Verse 1

 I'll give you countless amounts of outright acceptance if you want it

 I will give you encouragement to choose the path that you want if you need it

 You can speak of anger and doubts your fears and freak outs and I'll hold it

 you can share you so-called shame-filled accounts of times in your life and I wont judge it

and there are no strings attached

Chorus 1

 You owe me nothing for giving the love that I give

 you owe me nothing for caring the way that I have

 I give you thanks for receiving it's my privilege

 and you owe me nothing in return

Verse 2

 you can ask for space for yourself and only yourself and I'll grant it

 you can ask for freedom as well or time to travel and you'll have it

 you can ask to live by yourself or love someone else and I'll support it

 you can ask for anything you want anthing at all and I'll understand it

and there are no strings attached to it

Chorus 2

 You owe me nothing for giving the love that I give

 you owe me nothing for caring the way that I have

 I give you thanks for receiving it's my privilege

 and you owe me nothing in return

Interlude

 I bet you're wondering when the next payback shoe will eventually drop

 I bet you're wondering when my conditionals police will force you to cough up

 I bet you're wondering how far you have now danced your way back into debt

 this is the only kind of love as I understand it that there really is

Verse 3

 you can express your deepest of truths even if it means I'll lose you and I'll hear it

 you can fall into the abyss on your way to bliss I'll empathize with

 you can say that you have to skip town to chase your passion and I'll hear it

 you can even hit rock bottom have a midlife crisis and I'll hold it

and there are no strings attached to it

Chorus 3

repeat it)

 You owe me nothing for giving the love that I give

 you owe me nothing for caring the way that I have

 I give you thanks for receiving it's my privilege

 and you owe me nothing in return

Outro