What I Know Is Not Enough

Oh, on that overcast first day

I'd closed and I'd locked my door

Oh, my breath was thick like a fog

And it downpoured as I hid out in New York

The evenings merged together

Went on forever like a prayer

Echoed endlessly in my head

And the words unsaid

They manifested quickly, swiftly

Into shapes at the end of my bed

And they say-

What I know is not enough

But I've taken all I can

I told you not to break my heart

You promised everything

I'll show my worn décolletage

And tired calves that tense

This time I know I have to change

I hope, oh, I hope that I'll be more than this

I hope, oh, I hope that I'll know more than this

And on that simmering fifth day

Yeah, it was cold, but my skin was on fire

And I threw myself out on the porch in the rain

With my nerves twitching like a live wire

And I heaved like I was bailing hay

Like I was moving great stones

Ooh, but there I stood alone and drenched

On an Autumn morn, in the cold

What I know is not enough

But I've taken all I can

I told you not to break my heart

You promised everything

I'll show my worn décolletage

And tired calves that tense

This time I know I have to change

I hope, oh, I hope that I'll be more than this

I hope, oh, I hope that I'll know more than this

Did you ever truly love?

Did you ever truly trust?

If you care like everyone

Why'd your words amount to dust?

I am not a woman who will teach you

I have a got a beating heart inside me

Blood that flows and eyes that stare so wide

At those who don't collapse into the tide of

Feelings that encompass all your body

Tell me how I'll ever learn to trust

Though you are not my lover or my friend

You've taught me what it's like to be in love, oh