I Loved You Once in Silence

I loved you once in silence

And misery was all I knew

Trying so to keep my love from showing

All the while not knowing you loved me too

Yes, loved me in lonesome silence;

Your heart filled with dark despair

Knowing love would flame in you forever

And I'd never, never know the flame was there

Then one day we cast away our secret longing;

The raging tide we held inside would hold no more

The silence at last was broken

We flung wide our prison door

Every joyous word of love was spoken

And now there's twice as much grief

Twice the strain for us;

Twice the despair

Twice the pain for us

As we had known before

The silence at last was broken

We flung wide our prison door

Every joyous word of love was spoken

And after all had been said

Here we are, my love

Silent once more

And not far, my love

From where we were before