Tears Are Words The Heart Can't Say

As you sit with me and dry my tears
I wonder why you can't hear
My heart screaming out
All the things I've kept inside
Locked away for far too long

I've loved you for so long now
And yet you must never know
I know we've got too much to lose
That we'd be stupid to take the risk.
So why won't my heart stop loving you?

Your arm around me, my head on your shoulder
So close, and yet so far apart
My tears are drying slowly now
The voices quietening, but if you listen very closely
You will hear my tears
Speaking to words that my heart is afraid to say