Why the expression?
What is it you know?
We’d grow old together
If I could just grow
If you could just grow
Softly she calls me
While I’m asleep
Echoes through hallways
Of my dreams
Gently she woos me
When no one’s there
Don’t want to lose her
But do I dare…?
Tell me your reasons
Blurt out your feelings
If you’re of such a mind
Go and pull out your hair
Brand my judgment unfair
Cry till you go blind
Is convenience tempting me
To gray a line of black and white?
Live with an army of little white lies
Or this emotional “Good night”?
What aren’t you saying?
What is it you fear?
Am I cruel to refuse you
Sympathetic words,
The words you need to hear?
Softly she calls me
As I lie awake
Her cold heart made
For mine to break
Coyly she lures me
Into her lair
Traps me with her fingers
Running through my hair
Tell me your reasons
Blurt out your feelings
If you’re of such a mind
Are you so inhuman?
Do you know what you’re doing?
Have you gone blind?
I’d give you anything
You ask of me and more
Just take your compromise
And march it straight out through my door
I could’ve loved her
You could have too
She could’ve had
The kind of life
We never knew
But we’ll never know