She's catching the wind, the gentlest of breezes   It's a sensitive passage she's sailing   Through stormy straits   Navigates my unfathomable failings      She rises before me, reading me clearly   Empty nest left pressed in the pillow   She can shift, she can sway and bend like a willow   She bends like a willow      I'm swept in the riptide, caught in a fish trap   Gift-wrapped in my soft self center   Summer sun leaves me as one who can only taste winter      She's a good, a good God send   She can bend like a willow   She bends like a willow   Oh, she bends like a willow      With a fully armed angel to cover me quickly   I'm cool under enemy fire   If I fall, she can crawl right under the wire      When I'm caustic and cold, she might dare to be bold   Ease me round to her warm way of thinking   Fill me up from the cup of love that she's drinking   And I find given time, I can bend like a willow      She bends like a willow   Bends like a willow   Like a willow, willow