A Lady Never Tells

Lying on your back you watch the lampshade swinging softly

With the rhythm and the rock your mind is very far from here

Coping as you do with what this life has thrown at you

It's no surprise it's just a footnote in a multi-colour time

To bring to bear the memory

Experience is everything

But shame's terrible power can mean a lady never tells

Beds are made for lying in and that's just what you did

For a quarter of a century, the pillow marked your skin

As the years are flying by tomorrow is a lullaby

Wait for metamorphosis

You are not cut out for this

So this is what it is to be the mother of a family

The kids one day will grow and leave the home, but never know

And leaving take the part of you you never did agree to

The girl you were, forgotten now, is still here

Because a lady never tells

She draws from deep within a well

On all the reasons and regrets why she does not deserve

Because a lady never tells

She lives as though under a spell

But it's all within her power to shape a destiny she can believe in

You can spy it in my eyes

I've got to compartmentalise it

And you know the very same within yourself

To get by you gotta hide

Whatever secret is inside

And keep it there until you finally get some help

You can spy it in my eyes

I've got to compartmentalise it

And you know the very same within yourself

To get by you gotta hide

Whatever secret is inside

And keep it there until you finally get some help

Oh oh oh oh oh ohhh

Oh oh oh oh oh ohhh ohhh

Oh oh oh oh oh ohhh

Because a lady never tells

She draws from deep within a well

On all the reasons and regrets why she does not deserve

Because a lady never tells

She lives as though under a spell

But it's all within her power to shape a destiny she can believe in