If I Had Known

 

If I had known you would turn away

Would I have bared my soul to you?

If I had known you would throw

My timidly offered friendship back in my face

Would I have still reached out to you?

 

If I had known it was alll an act

Would I be so convinced by you?

If I had known what that look

That faraway look in your blue eyes meant

Would I have trusted you so completely?

 

No

Because I don’t want to expose my wounds again

They’re still stinging from your blow

I don’t’ want to be vulnerable again

I’m too scared to make the first move

Afraid of rejection, terrified of betrayal

 

Yes

Because you’ll never find true friendship

If you aren’t prepared to leap into the unknown

Sometimes you might fall, out of control

But sometimes there will be someone there

Who’ll catch you and make it worth the fall

 

Yes

Because what is a soul that’s kept locked up?

How can you know yourself if you’re afraid

To let others know you first?

Because we want to believe in love

We want to trust, depire our fears

 

Yes

Even if I knew you were lying to me

Knew you took my trust and used it against me

Knew you never meant a word you said to me

Knew you never gave yourself to me

I’d still take the risk