Beauty & Pain

You cry when you're happy, and you cry when you're sad

The same when it's good as you cry off the bad

Now you're looking at me, white knuckling your tea

There's a rose by the window, it sways in the breeze

I find myself scanning through the words in my mind

For something to say that won't make the tears fly

But the crack in my voice says that I have no choice

While the rain hits the window it drowns out the noise

Beauty and pain is like sunshine and rain

Can't have one without the other

It's hard to be your lover

We swam in the oceans, now I'm alone in this creek

With an eye for the sorrow and a heart that won't let be

It's a burden to carry—a thorn on the vine

Well if love is in sunshine then the shadow is mine

Beauty and pain is like sunshine and rain

You can't have one without the other

It was hard to be your lover

It's been 42 days and I think I should call

So I pick up the phone to see if I'm still scarred

By the beauty of love and the truth of its cost

And the rose by the window, its petals all lost

Beauty and pain is like sunshine and rain

Can't have one without the other

It was hard to be your lover