| I loved you once in silence
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| And misery was all I knew
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| Trying so to keep my love from showing
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| All the while not knowing you loved me too
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| Yes, loved me in lonesome silence;
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| Your heart filled with dark despair
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| Knowing love would flame in you forever
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| And I’d never, never know the flame was there
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| Then one day we cast away our secret longing;
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| The raging tide we held inside would hold no more
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| The silence at last was broken
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| We flung wide our prison door
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| Every joyous word of love was spoken
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| And now there’s twice as much grief
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| Twice the strain for us;
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| Twice the despair
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| Twice the pain for us
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| As we had known before
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| The silence at last was broken
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| We flung wide our prison door
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| Every joyous word of love was spoken
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| And after all had been said
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| Here we are, my love
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| Silent once more
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| And not far, my love
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| From where we were before |