Surrender

To win you must fight, or so they say

But with love things never seem to work that way.

With love you can't win

If love can't get in

And it can't pierce the heart of a defender.

To win in love you must surrender.

If you're angry then you can't surrender, no.

Your unwilling surrender's just a show

And unwillingly sweet means certain defeat

Better a fighter than a soft-spoken contender

To win in love you must surrender.

Now, I can be stubborn and draw the line

But now I've learned to pray thy will and not mine

Love has softened my heart and softened me

It's softened my eyes on the things they see

And my cheek has got much

Softer to the touch

Since I learned to be receiver as well as sender.

To win in love you must surrender.

I ask at night when the world is still

Be it done unto me according to thy will.

To summon Gabriel and Michaelangelo

Or to compete with Juliet or Romeo

Your armor, so strong

Is strategically wrong

Victory goes this time to the tender.

To win in love you must surrender.

To win in love you must surrender, surrender, surrender, surrender...

Surrender.