Tuesday, June 19, 2007

I Don't Know Why (a song)

A memory hits the heart and turns it upside down
everything inside spills out, turning me around
precious jewels I thought I long ago, cast into the sea
like the tide, ceaselessly, circle back to me
and

I don't know why
I don't know why
it isn't like you look at me the way you used to
I don't know why
I don't know why
the heart holds on to love, a whole life through.
I don't know why
I don't know why.

Horses fly down old dirt roads, pure, white, and free,
the way you rode into my soul, saw inside of me,
that place, only you knew, only we knew,
but you don't feel any of the dust of we two,
and

I don't know why
don't know why
it isn't like I still long to be with you, so
I don't know why
I don't know why
the heart holds on to love, a whole life through.
I don't know why
I don't know why.

Maybe someday I can let you go
and never think of us
and how we used to know
that the heart knew, the heart knew . . .

But,
I don't know why
don't know why
it isn't like you look at me the way you used to
I don't know why
I don't know why
the heart holds on to love, a whole life through.
I don't know why
I don't know why.