When you look real close you can see real good
You can see the imperfections
Now that we know the crooked and the straight

We can love in real completion

It's a danger to love for tomorrow

It's a danger to love for the better
But if it's not there it's just not there
With the things that really matter


Taking it just the way that it is
I'm taking it at face value

Things can look better in the distance
But that not the way I want to love you


I want to love you that close
I want to love you that close
I want to love you that close

I'm taking it just the way that it is

Opinion s will fly back and forth

And to disagree can be treason
But you have loved my stronger side
And I have loved the reasons


Takin' it just the way that it is
I'm takin' it at face value

Things can look better in the distance
But that's not the way I want to love you


I've been drinking my coffee from a china cup
I've been feeling holy and better
In a borrowed apartment in Boston

I sat down and wrote you this love letter.