A Hard Secret to Keep - Mark Chesnutt

I stay up late and read a lot at night

Lately she’s begun to wonder why

She don’t know I’m scared that I’ll start talking in my sleep

You’re a hard secret to keep

And every time she asks me where I’ve been

A cheater’s paranoia begins

Scrambling for an answer

Anything she might believe

You’re a hard secret to keep

One slip of the tongue is all it would take

Just one little note, that I forgot to throw away

The slightest trace of make-up on a shirt that won’t come clean

You’re a hard secret to keep

I never meant for you to touch my heart

Never meant to take one night this far

How much longer can I live this double life I lead

You’re a hard secret to keep

I wonder if she feels you every time she touches me

You’re a hard secret to keep