I walk up to a fortress
A barricaded wall
I'm knock, knock, knocking at the door
Please let the drawbridge fall

I'm not a knight in shining armor
Nor a prince so fair
I'm just a lowly countryman
Who wants to show he cares

How much longer must I knock
Upon your heart's closed door?
Please open up and let me in
Before I knock no more

You're so afraid to open up
Your heart and let me in
You think that all that knocking
On the door is just the wind

But I just want to tell you
It's my heart that's at the door
Please open up and let me in
My heart can't take much more

Inside I'd locked my feelings, too
So no one else could see
But somehow, now, you've let them out
Somehow you've found the key

I don't know how you did it
I'd thought my heart immune
But somehow you broke down the walls
The feelings came too soon

It's hard for me to tell you
The way I feel inside
The way, when you are with me
My heart begins to glide

When you look into my eyes
My heart begins to melt
You make me feel a way
I thought that I'd no longer felt

When you're not around
I find my thoughts return to you
Of the sunlight streaming through your hair
Your eyes a sparkling blue

Of the softness of your voice
The way it whispers on the wind
Of the touches and the talks
The way you make me feel within

All these things I feel inside
Are starting up anew
I just wish I could find a way
To let you feel them too

But, for now, I'll stand here waiting
Right outside your fortress wall
And hope, if I wait long enough
You'll let the drawbridge fall

 

July 24, 1989