Words by neil peart, music by geddy lee and alex lifeson
It went right by me --
at the time it went over my head
i was looking out the window
i should have looked
at your face instead
It went right by me --
just another wall
there should have been a moment
when we let our barriers fall
i never meant
what you're thinking --
that is not what i meant at all...
Well i guess we all
have these feelings
we can't leave unreconciled
some of them burned on our ceilings
some of them learned as a child
The things that we're concealing
will never let us grow
time will do its healing
you've got to let it go
Closed for my protection --
open to your scorn
between these two directions
my heart is sometimes torn
I lie awake with my secrets
spinning around my head
something that somehow
escaped me --
something you shouldn't have said
i was looking out the window
i should have looked
at your face instead...
I find no absolution
in my rational point of view
maybe some things are instinctive
but there's one thing you could do
you could try to understand me --
i could try to understand you...