Turn down the lights
Turn down the bed
Turn down these voices inside my head
Lay down with me, tell me no lies
Just hold me close, don't patronize
Don't patronize me.



I knew tonight you would need a shoulder to lean on. The wedding today was a dagger to your soul. I need you too. You are the only one who can quiet the voices in me when I am stressed. But as you close the door and turn off the lights, I know tonight you need more. We have never crossed this line before and I'm not sure that I can and survive. But I would do anything for you. Just don't say my name, that would be a lie.


Cause I can't make you love me if you don't
You can't make your heart feel something it won't
Here in the dark, in these final hours
I will lay down my heart and I'll feel the power
But you won't , no you won't
Cause I can't make you love me if you don't


I keep my eyes shut while we make love. We both do. You do it to pretend I'm someone else. I do it to pretend I don't care that you wish I wasn't here. I don't want to see that you don't love me. When the sun comes up I'll do what you want, and pretend it didn't happen. But for now, let me have this.


I'll close my eyes , then I won't see
The love you don't feel when your holdin me
Mornin will come And I'll do what's right
Just give me till then to give up this fight
And I will give up this fight.


You ask me to marry you the next day. I was shocked. I thought for sure that you would take off. I notice though as you pop the question that you don't look at me. I walk to you with a single tear on my cheek and tell you no. You look wounded. But I know it's just your pride. As I leave the room you call out and ask why? I turn to you and whisper " Cause I can't make you love me if you don't "

The next day you do leave and I know now what that dagger feels like. But I also know I did the right thing and , in the end, that's what counts.

I'll just keep telling myself that. maybe one day I'll believe it.