Random thoughts

Try not to write anything you wouldn’t actually say in real life

'To you I would give my love to' for instance. You would never say that in real life. Try not to fall into the trap of lazy songwriting by writing something like that just to make the line scan or rhyme with another line.

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If a verse isn’t progressing the story or deepening the understanding of what it is you’re trying to say then you probably don’t need it (Unless the tune is so fantastic no one gives a damn)

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Assume that the listener knows nothing. If you refer to ‘it’ when you mean ‘Love’, but haven’t let anyone know that this is a love song, they won’t connect.

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Think of something you want to say, then try and get the idea across as well as you can in only four lines, or even three or two lines. Try and give each line as much 'meaning' as possible, and then you actually have to decribe less.