A Gift - Lyrics - Basia

Basia Trzetrzelewska is a Polish singer-songwriter and record producer. She established a successful international recording career featuring characteristically Latin-flavoured jazz-pop crossover songs during the late 1980s and early 1990s and the late 2000s and 2010s, particularly in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Japan. She is noted for possessing a wide vocal range, approximately three octaves that span from contralto to soprano tessituras, as well as her singular jazz-influenced stylings and multi-layered harmonies.

strong, that's what they say i'm only complacent and i will admit to the crime of being too blind feeling too certain that you'll always be on my side i often forget your love is a gift a gift i take it for granted i know you don't have to be here you don't have to love me yet you do you still do weak, when on my own confess i'm pathetic befriended by panic and cold and then you arrive my torment relenting again i appear to be strong that's what they say... i often forget your love is a gift, a gift trusts and lets me breathe, repairs every cut and sting i often forget your love is a gift, a gift you don't have to be here, you don't have to love me i know you don’t have to love me and be here with me you are a gift i take it for granted and... how can i forget your love is a gift and you do