You remember the frost and toil of years gone by
I hold the wounds inside that never dry
The same stretch of old time
Two people two kinds of rhyme
You hold the warmth scattered in daily fire
I hide a sorrow no one can inquire
Love lands on different ground
And becomes a wall that won't come down
You speak of summers and winters spent in haste
I'm trapped in a grief none can taste
All that material care
Can't fill the hollow there
Giving is not the same as being seen
Pain doesn't mean the past was never green
No need to judge who's right or wrong
Just feelings that don't belong
Memory splits and goes its separate ways
Your hardship I have not forgotten through the days
But those small hopes inside of me
Deserve a place to be set free
No need to force forgiveness desperately
Just let us look at each other honestly
See each other's fragility and fear
Learn to lay the fight down slowly here
You hold the truth that you believe is true
I hold the past I once knew
The hardest understanding of all
Is to accept two truths stand tall
No need to measure short and long
No need to make the other wrong
Love was always complex in its form
Warm and cold within the same storm
So many fights come from just looking across
Seeing only the pain that each one has lost
You carry the weight of living's demand
I carry the sorrow I can't withstand
If we could drop the debate and compare
We might see each other's despair
Through the wall of years between
Hear the real sound unheard and unseen
No need to erase the frost of the past
Allow the wounds to grow at last
No need to rush toward reconcile
First learn to see the other's style
Even if we can't fully understand
Leave a soft retreat a gentle hand
All sorrow and joy are real and true
Let love grow through the pain we go through