I Never Knew - Dar Williams

Love was like a stranger I felt lucky just to let inside

I said «Oh love, now tell me what I’ll have to change

And what I’ll have to hide for love»

Always shifting into something else I thought that was the price

Tell me what I’ll have to sacrifice

And I will lay it down, I will lay it down

I never knew love would tell me I was worth the fight

I never knew love could hear the wrong and see the right

I never knew I could tell the truth th whole thing

I look up and you’re still listening

'Caus I never knew

Love was like a pilot sped me through the clouds to Mandalay

I said «Oh love, I thought we’d rest a while

But now I see we’re going to stay right here»

And I said it’s for the best, I’m sure I had no better plans

Ask me what it is that I’m still holding in my hands

And I will lay it down, I will lay it down

I never knew love could ask what I was searching for

I never knew love would walk beside me through the door

Never knew it would open up the atlas for me

Hold the map to find my story

'Cause I never knew

I thought love was hoping that you had enough

To give to someone else

No one ever told me I should lift my hand

And ask for love myself

But it wasn’t a surprise to know I told myself a pack of lies

Whenever I’d rush to answer every beck and call

I knew in my heart that wasn’t really love at all

You might go and the sky will fall, the oceans grieve

The earth will shake

I’ll still believe in love

I just never knew