You kept your secret deep inside –
All the while we laughed and cried.
You never let me see that part of you;
And all the while we carried on
As though nothing could be ever wrong –
You played your part so well I never knew.
When first we met you seized my mind –
And stayed there for what seemed all the time –
And I tried to give you all I thought I had.
But now I see you kept from me –
So much you thought I shouldn’t see –
So much you thought that I would see as bad.
If only we had talked some more –
Just like real friends are for –
Before so much we had was gone for good.
We could have tried to work things out –
Of that I didn’t have a doubt –
‘Cos talking well is what we always could.
I tried in every way I knew –
To understand both me and you –
In the hope that we would always be;
Yet as the rolling years pa**ed by –
Things got worse the more we cried;
There was more and more that I just couldn’t see.
I often wonder why it was –
That others told me much because –
I suppose that I must have been half blind.
But looking back there’s now so much -
I know we shouldn’t ever touch.
That should have stayed right out of sight and mind.
*** Thanks Tony Norwell for these lyrics