I've tasted tears like these before And though are the saddest I have known simple cause is none but one of joy For now it seems I may not be Upon earth as I have been 'til now A truly unexpected twist of For I had given up on Especially myself, and it late Too late for any to cast a line His would hit the ice and snap in two But someone blew a and with his breath Unfroze what a roaring fire could do An now is mine and from the start I knew I was bound to let him in But while I smile I weep because I That something ends so that this can God, a fool am I, or am I wise? For years have I kept in my heart The name of one who never had more But whom I about and set apart From other men, though never did I My feelings, nay, but him as a muse An inspiration, something to But rarely did I think on I'd lose If my affections were replaced By someone living, breathing, warm and For I pledged my life to him in song The same for me I knew he did not If I could the truth, I'd say I planned To go on in this for all time I didn't he couldn't care for me As long as I own him in each rhyme And someone to think about each night When torment torment wracked my soul To writhe in sorrow, bathe in pain's To fill my was my only goal Until the day I dared to call it For this love was the I had known And somehow I could keep the rest For in my mind I was alone And thus in love, though with a specter, I never did expect, nor wish, nor To take another in holy place Though in my I knew no one was there Yay, in my mind, but not so in my I loved, I swear I loved, else why this of my will I opened up the door And swept the where I swore hed remain And dies within me as I sweep As something new is in every tear Past years of memories I to keep A future that I both long for and really was no question when it came This shooting star, both fire and Who never gave me time to my choice But made my his own with each caress For and only once I did not think Where I should feel and for that I was But it was one thing to the part And something else to say the word For I had, I felt a shadow fade Which over me had for all these years And no true loss in all the world match The sense of someone passing my tears I known 'til then how lost I was Enveloped in this of my design So much of me my muse had thus That in my eyes no was seen to shine Unless it bore of my phantom's light Or strains of music in the beams my soul was open to the view No man could enter, except in my Its over now and I am not I know full well I am meant to do But late at night when I recall my I cry for us as though he ever That I had waited years to hear my Once spoken as it should have been Id wait there still but real appeared And stole the no man could hope to win If to my I'd ever said hello It might not hurt this to say goodbye But there is something in this scene Which may appear as to the eye Of anyone who witnesses Bound in the arms and lips of my new in a way I've never been And healing wounds I thought would never The truth shattered my reality The soul I dreamed but thought Id meet And now I look back except in dreams Yet I do the pain is always sweet For pain can show me who I was And from that girl to me how much Ive Ive never tasted tears like before And yes, they are the I have known