An Ode

How many times do I have to try to tell you that I'm sorry for the things I've done?
When I start to try to tell you, that's when you have to tell me "Hey, this kind of trouble's only just begun."
I tell myself to many times "Why don't you ever learn to keep your big mouth shut?"
That's why it hurts to hear the words that keep on falling from your mouth...
Falling from your mouth...falling your mouth..

Tell me, why...
Please tell me, why?

I may be mad, I may be blind
I may be viciously unkind
But I can still read what you're thinking
And I've heard it said that you'd be better off besides....
Why can't you see that this boat is sinking?

Let's go down to the water's edge and we can cast away those doubts...
Some things are better left unsaid...but they still turn me inside out
Turning inside out...turning inside out

Tell me, why...
Please tell me, why?

This is the book I never read, these are the words I never said
This is the path I'll never tread, these are the dreams I'll dream instead
This is the joy that's seldom spread, and these are the tears, the tears we shed
This is the fear, this is the tread and these are the contents of my head
And these are the years that we have spent, and this is what they represent
And do you know how I feel?
Cause I don't think you know...I don't think you'll ever know...

You'll never why..

-Originally by Annie Lennox/Covered by Kelly Clarkson in 2005.