I loved you once in silence

and mis'ry was all I knew.

Trying so to keep my love from showing

all the while not knowing

you loved me too.

Yes, loved me in lonesome silence

Your heart filled with dark dispair.

Knowing love would flame in you forever

and I'd never never know the flame was there.

Then one day we cast away our secret longing,

the raging tide we felt inside could hold no more.

The silence at last was broken.

We flung wide our prison door.

Every joyous word of love was spoken,

and now there's twice as much grief, twice the strain for us,

twice the dispair, twice the pain for us,

as we had known before.

The silence at last was broken.

We flung wide our prison door.

Every joyous word of love was spoken,

and after all had been said here we are my love,

silent once more and not far my love,

from where we were before.