It went right by me --

At the time it went over my head

I was looking out the window

I should have looked at your face instead



It went right by me --

Just another wall

There should have been a moment

When we let our barriers fall

I never meant what you're thinking --

That is not what I meant at all...



Well I guess we all have these feelings

We can't leave unreconciled

Some of them burned on our ceilings

Some of them learned as a child



The things that we're concealing

Will never let us grow

Time will do its healing

You've got to let it go



Closed for my protection --

Open to your scorn

Between these two directions

My heart is sometimes torn



I lie awake with my secrets

spinning around my head

something that somehow escaped me --

Something you shouldn't have said

I was looking out the window

I should have looked at your face instead...



I find no absolution

In my rational point of view

Maybe some things are instinctive

But there's one thing you could do

You could try to understand me --

I could try to understand you