A Lady Never Tells

Lying on your back you watch the lampshade swinging softly
With the rhythm and the rock your mind is very far from here
Coping as you do with what this life has thrown at you
It's no surprise it's just a footnote in a multi-colour time

To bring to bear the memory
Experience is everything
But shame's terrible power can mean a lady never tells

Beds are made for lying in and that's just what you did
For a quarter of a century, the pillow marked your skin
As the years are flying by tomorrow is a lullaby
Wait for metamorphosis
You are not cut out for this

So this is what it is to be the mother of a family
The kids one day will grow and leave the home, but never know
And leaving take the part of you you never did agree to
The girl you were, forgotten now, is still here

Because a lady never tells
She draws from deep within a well
On all the reasons and regrets why she does not deserve
Because a lady never tells
She lives as though under a spell
But it's all within her power to shape a destiny she can believe in

You can spy it in my eyes
I've got to compartmentalise it
And you know the very same within yourself
To get by you gotta hide
Whatever secret is inside
And keep it there until you finally get some help

You can spy it in my eyes
I've got to compartmentalise it
And you know the very same within yourself
To get by you gotta hide
Whatever secret is inside
And keep it there until you finally get some help

Oh oh oh oh oh ohhh
Oh oh oh oh oh ohhh ohhh
Oh oh oh oh oh ohhh

Because a lady never tells
She draws from deep within a well
On all the reasons and regrets why she does not deserve
Because a lady never tells
She lives as though under a spell
But it's all within her power to shape a destiny she can believe in