Can this be real, you care what I feel
you reach into my shadows, all that I conceal
Can this be true, all I want to know is you
run my fingers through your pain to feel the way you
do

And it s more than this lonely child can bear
to chalk a line between us while you re standing
there
Awakening a part of me I didn t know was there

And if I can t have you I want to be deep and blue
to dive beneath the waves and drown these dreams of
you
But it s just one more thing, another link to you
it draws me like the tide draws the sand

Can this be fair, I reach out, you re not there
you chose a different life, something I can t share
Can you explain why I m happy all the same
why I hold my head up high, smile on through the rain

For though I m holding on to what is true
and tell myself that I can t be with you
I m caught up in a tangled web of dreams I can t see
through