The Other Side of Me - Jackie DeShannon

You think you know me pretty well

But how can you tell?

You never get inside my head

The times we talk we never speak

We play hide and seek

So many things are left unsaid

Why can’t you see

What’s on the other side of me

The side of me

That reaches out to you?

Sweet thoughts and dreams

Like drops of rain on rippling streams

That wind and bend

Rivers with no end

Flowing on the other side of me

It seems I always get unstrung

I trip on my tongue

With words that come out something else

I’m so afraid the things I say

Might chase you away

I have to hide behind myself

Why can’t you see

What’s on the other side of me

The side of me

That reaches out to you?

Sweet thoughts and dreams

Like drops of rain on rippling streams

That wind and bend

Rivers with no end

Flowing on the other side of me

Why can’t you see

What’s on the other side of me

The side of me

That reaches out to you?

Oh, don’t let me hide

The feelings that I’ve been denied