Though beauty tries at times to hide beneath the tough and the stern
It cannot hide from the eyes that know true beauty deep within
and I see it in your every move
I hear it in your every word
I know that past the outer defense
is the sweetest and most incredible girl

For this I have been fortunate to find what others may have spurned
For some are not yet wise enough to know treasure when they have it

I only wish you could see past my eyes into my soul
I wish you could believe in someone
The way I can believe in you

But I know it's difficult to trust a man
who does the things I seem to do

Were there men who bent the rules?
Who lived life on the edge?
And still somehow found decency and honor
in the end?

If I give my heart away
can I still outlive the shame?

Will you understand that I was always
more serious than you knew?

This is not an easy thing. This is not something I would just up and do.
It wasn't only my eyes but my heart that's chosen you.

If I had a choice to take the easy way and live a life in a lie
I wouldn't and I couldn't
But I don't have that choice because there is no choice for me
I have to follow my heart to the end of this
Whatever that will be

So as you see me dance, in the rain
please know I will survive it all
Although my winter is on the way;
I still have the memory of your smile