Nothing To Hide

If I had to go to sleep at night before you were ready for bed
I'd have to have you next to me just so I could lay down my head
If I had to leave in the morning before you were to wake
I'd have to stir you for a kiss just for making-it-through-the-days sake

If there were somewhere I had to go and you couldn't tag along
I'd send you a picture every chance I got so you wouldn't forget while I was gone
If I had to leave the country again and I would be gone for a year
I promise you not a day would go by that I didn't shed a tear

What I feel for you is no secret, not to you and not to me
But you have no idea how much this feeling has grown, no idea the intensity
And God forbid my life would end before you knew the truth
You are the dream I've been living for since my earliest day of youth

And life, it's not all it should be, not without you to share it by my side
But that is no reason to hold it in, no reason to treat love like something to hide
It's not something that I could even say here before I say it to your face
But I think you have a slight idea, that you are the one thing my mind can't erase...