October 25, 1999
The world will tell you to confess
Your love and not to waste
The feelings found for someone you
Fell deeply for post-haste
They'll tell you that you'll never know
If someone loves you too
I'm here to tell you not to do
What someone tells you to
The deafening silence in these walls
Within the place I live
Is like a freight train roaring through
It sets the mind to swim
Sometimes it's best to keep that love
Inside and let it lie
Without confessing to the world
To let it die inside
It's worse to know that love is not
What someone else does feel
And that your life is silent now
Forever will be still
When hope is killed and dreams are smashed
The spark of life goes too
No longer plans or songs to sing
No longer schemes for two
I wish I were where it was warm
Where balmy breezes blew
Where sun came out and warmed my bones
Where I could dream of you
Where no one knew how broke my heart
Or hopeless was my life
Where I could hide, pretend to be
Okay with living life
Where sands were warm
Where palm trees waved
Where children laugh and sing
Where I could be just one more soul
And not a pitied thing
Where friends knew me and called my phone
Where family came to stay
Where lonliness didn't fill my nights
And sadness all my days
If I had kept love to myself
Alone I still would be
But no one but myself would know
How much I still loved thee...
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