Love, I know

I saw you, saw you all the time
as you walked in the door.
Smiling at the other ones,
who always ask for more.

I felt you close, although I knew
you couldn't look my way.
My eyes were screaming desperately
the words I couldn't say.

I know you knew, I know you saw,
I know you understood.
Give me just a shred of doubt
- oh, I wish you could.

You hid your hand while touching mine,
your eyes revealed my pain.
Please know, you said, and looked so real,
this time won't come again.

You never said, but still I saw
the love behind your eyes.
At last I knew I'd touched your heart
and conquered all my why's.

Things can be forever,
although they never were.
This is what you said to me,
and now my heart is sure.

I'll suffer for what cannot be,
I'll suffer without you.
For even though I cannot know,
I really, really do.