Even Now

(What You Didn't Say)

You cannot be given the words to say to make me feel that you care.

If you care, they will flow from your uncontrolled springs of desire.

Created now.

Not purchased in a card shop

borrowed from another poet.

Your words alone are poetry and music.

I know both your voice and the voice of love.

I know when the two are one.

And I know when something is wrong.

When you are trying but it isn't there.

It just isn't there.

You wonder what is was you said?

Darling, you said nothing to reveal the dead space in your heart.

Your words were flawless to all but my listening heart.

It was not what you said.

It was what you didn't say.

I could not feel you...

for I was not felt by you.

And where are you, even now?

~playing~ Even Now

-Words and Music by Marty Panzer and Barry Manilow

Even now when there's someone else who cares
When there's someone home who's waiting just for me
Even now I think about you as I'm climbin' up the stairs
And I wonder what to do so she won't see that
Even now when I know it wasn't right
And I've found a better life than what we had
Even now I wake up cryin' in the middle of the night
And I can't believe it still could hurt so bad

Even now when I have come so far
I wonder where you are,
I wonder why it's still so hard without you

Even now when I come shining through,
I swear I think of you
And how I wish you knew, even now

Even now when I never hear your name
And the world has changed so much since you've been gone
Even now I still remember and the feeling's still the same
And this pain inside of me goes on and on, even now

Even now when I have come so far
I wonder where you are
I wonder why it's still so hard without you

Even now when I come shinin' through
I swear I think of you
and God, I wish you knew
Somehow, even now