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IF ONLY YOU KNEW

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I wish that you could see how I’ve grown

I wish you knew how easy it is for me to not lose hope

‘cause hope is all I’ve done since I last heard from you, it seems

I’ve grown so much

I just wish you could see

 

I wish you knew just how much I have changed

I hardly recognize myself, even from yesterday

how funny, how strange how I can’t help but to keep running away

I wish you knew

just how much I have changed

 

but it’s clear as crystal to me you have no idea

I try so hard, and all to no avail

and I know here won’t make me happy

but I’d rather be unhappy here

a different person

than anywhere else I’d be myself previously

 

it feels so many years have come and gone

I think you, too, have bettered yourself

and done it on your own

I’m happy and I’m sorry and I’m still a bit confused

I love you so much

if only you knew

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