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

If you loved me too

Yes, loved me in lonesome silence

My heart filled with dark despair

Thinking love would flame in me forever

And you'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