I don't want to cry myself to sleep.
How has my love for you become so deep?
The minute I get in bed alone,
My heart no longer holds it's own.

All through the day my face can smile.
I still can't sleep for quite awhile.
Why couldn't it hurt some other time?
How does night ring a painful chime?

I can drive the pain away by day.
All by myself it's here to stay.
At night my heart just wants you here.
I wake from nightmares, no one's near.

I dream that love of ours is lost.
I can't accept that hurtful cost.
At times it rips my tender heart.
No work, car, road should keep us apart.

Lindsey Milton 1997

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