I Loved You Once in Silence

I loved you once in silence

And misery was all I knew

Trying so to keep my love from showing

All the while not knowing you loved me too



Yes, loved me in lonesome silence

Your heart filled with dark despair

Thinking love would flame in you forever

And I'd never, never know the flame was there



Then one day we cast away our secret longing

The raging tide we held inside would hold no more

The silence at last was broken

We flung wide our prison door

Every joyous word of love was spoken



And now there's twice as much grief

Twice the strain for us

Twice the despair

Twice the pain for us

As we had known before



The silence at last was broken

We flung wide our prison door

Every joyous word of love was spoken

And after all had been said here we are, my love

Silent once more and not far, my love

From where we were before