If You Really Knew Lyrics

You throw your arms open wide and I extend my hand

I'm running out of excuses not to let you in

Call it the burden of the human race

My deepest longing and my deepest fear

Are exactly the same

If you really knew me

Could you really love me

I keep on hiding out and holding it in

If you really saw me

Would you really want me

I don't know how to let you love me again

And I extend my hand

I hear us talking around the words we ought to say

I'll be a sketch of myself for now to play it safe

Still I can feel you pulling on my heart

And I could tell you what I want in the end

But I'm lost in my head at the start

If you really knew me

Could you really love me

I keep on hiding out and holding it in

If you really saw me

Would you really want me

I don't know how to let you love me again

And I extend my hand