Tried to Tell You

It was getting late

You were afraid of yourself

Afraid that you might call her

That you could not help yourself

And what could I say?

Lived in you all day

I watched her in your eyes and pass across your face

Like the wind and the water

I tried to tell you

That is the way that you want her

I tried to tell you

You were so afraid to try and pull apart

The endless rain you thought of as your heart

With blood on your hands from the river inside

You try to deny it, you never felt the tide

Of the moon pulling closer

I tried to tell you

That is the way that you want her

I tried to tell you

Like the wind and the water

I will not help you not to feel

To tell yourself it was not real

And only fools believe

This is what the songs are for

This is the dirt beneath the floor

I cannot sell you on your own need

Some days there might be nothing you encounter

To stand behind the fragile idea that anything matters

I feel as useless as a tree in a city park

Standing as a symbol of what we have blown apart

You know, you break what you treasure

I tried to tell you

But I, I'm not sure you remember

So I tried to tell you

And no, it cannot be measured

I tried to tell you

Would it kill you to believe in your pleasure?

I tried to tell you