Because Then You Would Know...

There are some things I can’t tell you.
Though it burdens me day and night.
There are pieces of my life
That are more wrong than right.
There are things I can’t tell you,
Under the surface, below.
Things I can’t say to you,
Because then you would know.

If I told you something,
Would it change the way you think about me?
If I shared the “nothing”,
Would you turn your head away?
If I spilled everything,
Everything you never knew about me...
If I gave you my secret life,
Would you leave or would you stay?

If I tell you everything,
Would you use it to go tell on me?
The thing that I say to you
Could you hear it and just let it be?
There are things I would share with you...
They sit under the surface, just below.
But I’m scared of the things I can’t say to you
Because then you would know.

If I told you something,
Would it change the way you think about me?
If I shared the “nothing”,
Would you turn your head away?
If I spilled everything,
Everything you never knew about me...
If I gave you my secret life,
Would you leave or would you stay?

I want to enlighten you.
Lean close and be my confessor.
I’ll give you a piece
You’ll be my admissions’ possessor.
But those things I can’t tell you
The things resting under the surface, below.
Things I want to say to you but can’t.
Because then, then you would know.