• Second after second,
    I sit beside a stream.
    No longer caring for my love.
    No longer in a dream.

    Minute after minute,
    I wait for life to pass.
    No longer in my strong pursuit
    for the romance I had asked.

    Hour and then hour,
    searching for a way
    to live life without a love,
    and goodbye another day.

    And year after year,
    I'm proven all the same.
    the love of a man,
    I can never attain.

    And then here you are.
    So close and far away.
    You hold out your hand
    to ask if you can stay?

    But promise after promise
    has left me undone.
    You promise I can trust you,
    but your not the first one.

    I tell you with words
    that never speak lies.
    what love has done?
    "It has made me wise."

    "At first I wished love.
    that dream was in the air,
    and love I did find,
    but it was unfair.

    And then I asked for hope:
    "Romance find me first."
    And yet I still sit here,
    for love I still thirst.

    Last I begged acceptance,
    for a father so dear.
    but years of him ignoring,
    has made that message clear.

    So now I stand and ask you here,
    with your palm stretched out to mine,
    when love has done me nothing but wrong,
    Why won't it hurt me this time?