Tell Me Those Are Tears of Joy - Once and Future Band

Many nights we passed as friends

Hoping somehow you could sense

These words I’ve kept inside

Just too much to hide

This aching dream

How could it be

You share the same secret as me

Could this note I set afloat

Find you lost at sea

Tell me those are tears of joy

And not of sorrow for what’s been destroyed

A fragile frame with hallow bones

That some poor fool thought he could make his own

I’ve said too much and now my cover’s blown

Together in this crystal tower

We filled with countless idle hours

Will my heart be the stone

That brings it crashing down

Every glance I’ve analyzed

Every night I recognize

How front of me

For what might never be

Tell me those are tears of joy

And not of sorrow for what’s been destroyed

A fragile frame with hallow bones

That some poor fool thought he could make his own

I’ve said too much and now my cover’s blown

Before a word has crossed your lips

My heart sinks into the abyss

This shadow of a doubt

Is swallowed up by an eclipse

This moment hangs like glacial ice

Afraid to meet those tell-tale eyes

Break the final seal

Just what will they reveal

Tell me those are tears of joy

And not of sorrow for what’s been destroyed

A fragile frame with hallow bones

That some poor fool thought he could make his own

I’ve said too much and now my cover’s blown

I’ve played my hand with words I can’t disown

No matter how it ends I got to know