Hide Your Tears - John Hiatt

I don’t spend too many days

Thinking about my reckless ways

Broken hearts, rhymes of death

Trouble I’ve brought, pain I’ve left

All the changes I try to make

Like drowning bubbles in a giant wake

Coughed from the sea onto dry land

Brought to life somehow again

Hide your tears out in plain sight

Hide your tears to catch the light

Show your tears to all your friends

Then go and hide your tears again

Heard her cries through bedroom doors

Crashing dreams off distant shores

Said everything I shouldn’t say

Would different matter anyway

The stories I could never tell

Of lives and wives and city bells

They’re all wrapped in my arms so dear

Though nothing I have can hold them here

Hide your tears out in plain sight

Hide your tears to catch the light

Show your tears to all your friends

Then go and hide your tears again

I still fall for it every time

Take the cure on my own dime

Get up, get knocked down again

I ask for five and you give me ten

I broke into the house of love

A dimming light my shadow held

'Til shadows held no light to see

With all of it surrounding me

Hide your tears out in plain sight

Hide your tears to catch the light

Show your tears to all your friends

Then go and hide your tears again

I don’t spend too many days

Thinking about the reckless ways

A man tries to outrun his death

Or a broken heart runs out of breath