I Hope That You Will Understand

• I hope that you'll understand
• the silence inherent in this man
• all the things I've felt, never said

• Is it too late to tell you now
• the feelings that are in this my heart
• to say the things that have never come easy
• for me

• why is it so hard
• to show you how much I care
• to open the doors of my heart

• mom you know that I do
• some things will never change
• I will always love you

• why is it only as the days go by
• that I can begin to see
• all of the love that you had for me

• so many times when things went wrong
• you were always there
• I found it easy to walk away

• only now can I see
• the hurt you must have known
• the love that you have for me

• and I would not let you in
• and when I was grown
• I had to be on my own

• I hope that you'll understand
• the silence inherent in this man
• all the things I've felt, never said

• the times that I would stand alone
• desperately trying to say
• all the things that have never come easy for me

• but every time that I cried
• you were there by my side
• yet somehow I never knew

• that you were mine
• no matter how cold I might be
• you would always love me

• but as the years have come and gone
• and the distance between us has grown
• my heart reminds me of your love

• it has taken me so very long
• to say these words to you
• and I can never begin to heal the pain

• the pain that I've caused
• by a love that once was lost
• things that always went wrong

• oh how I've tried
• to let you deep inside
• to know the thoughts of my heart