Risk and Trepidation

We are both dying on the ends of our phone lines
You by your own hand and me by this heart
I can't stand your goodbyes
I'm too afraid to say my reason why

I try and I try and I try every time
The words are there in so many ways
Please just read between the lines
All I need is for you to know the reason why

I suffer in silence with an aching heart
I'd give anything for you to know my true emotions
All I have to do is say a few words
But I don't have the courage to risk it all

All your hurt and all your pain
It washes down me drowning me
I'd give every breathe to take it all away
I'd give it all for you to just want to call my name

I can imagine the sunsets, the day breaks, the memories
I can hear the sweet words that you will never tell me
All the ways you'd tell me you feel the same
Every dream that I dread I'll wake

But I keep quiet
I know it's best
You will never feel as I do for you
I can't bring myself to tell you the truth

Admitting my love is more than I can risk
Losing you for me is worse than death
So I sit here hoping you will remember me, hoping you love as I do
As we both sit here dying on the ends of our phone lines

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[terry smith]

Sometimes the things left unsaid are more hurtful than the worst things said to you.