Not in Vain

thirty-one, I'd had my fun, I wore my wedding shoes
it's time I said and I filled my head with all the other lies we use
all that night, the storm outside, the pounding of the rain
and in my heart I knew one day we'd go our separate ways

the more you cried the more I tried but I could not let him go
like the dress I wore those years before when he kissed me deep and slow
but I was tired of longing, tired of dreaming, tired of fantasy
so I walked the aisle with a wounded smile hoping you could set me free

and I see, as the years go by,
the mistakes that we both made
I don't need to defend or blame,
but I need to say that it was not in vain

Along the way the trials we fail come round and round again
But if your love has made me kinder it was not in vain

And I see, as the years go by,
the mistakes that we both made
I don't need to defend or blame,
but I need to say that it was not in vain