Think for just a moment
What it is that you would do
If suddenly you found yourself
Within my worn out shoes

Tell me if it's worth it
Would you try to work things out?
Or would you finally just give up
Engulfed within your doubt

I often sit and wonder
Why I hold on like I do
Why I don't just walk away
Why I don't just say we're through

You tell me that you love me
Yet it's others you must see
Can't you just make up your mind
Or do you like to torture me?

I used to cry at night
But the tears no longer fall
My feelings I conceal
Around my heart I've built a vault

Remember when you told me
That I was your closest friend?
That you couldn't live without me?
On my love you did depend?

How could you have said that?
What has changed in you since then?
That you could just let me walk right out
Then tell me, "Don't come back again!"

It's a sad thing that you've done
To something precious and so rare
You let love walk right out your door
Then act as if you just don't care

I was warned in the beginning
That you were just a flirt
But still I fell in love with you
Not knowing I'd be hurt

I thought that I could tie you down
And make you love just one
But how could I do something
No one else has ever done?

I know, dear, that you love me
So I'm trying not to cry
For I must find the strength somehow
To kiss your lips goodbye

Until you know you want me
My heart just can't be there
I need a love to call my own
Not one I have to share

So I will hide my broken heart
Beneath my smiling face
And though you'll think that I don't love you
No one else can take your place

 

December 16, 1990