How Can I Tell You Lyrics

Communication is a skill you must acquire
It will help you through your life
It is essential
Experience cannot be translated through theory
Oh my darling, this is what you will find
You have to have lived it
You have to walk into this world with your head held high
Be fluid child, don′t become crystalline
You're gonna have to swim with the molecules

(How can I tell you?)
You have to open up your heart
(How can I tell you?)
Be honest from the very start
(How I feel)
Make a stand for what is true
Try to be decent in all that you do
(How can I tell you?)
You′ve got to give to get support
(How can I tell you?)
A little effort and a lot more thought
(How I feel)
Check the wonder in all that you see
You've got to get love unconditionally

You're gonna have to walk that road
You′re gonna bear some heavy loads
You′ll make mistakes and you'll come close
You′re gonna get hurt by the one you love most
You're gonna have to take some pain
Accept the loss to live again
Forgive yourself and you′ll be free
There's more to love than just loving you see

(How can I tell you?)
The laughter on a crowded bus
(How can I tell you?)
Making space when you′re being crushed
(How I feel)
A letter I receive from you
A hug and a kiss when you're feeling blue
(How can I tell you?)
The last chocolate in the box
(How can I tell you?)
A pair of mittens and some cotton socks
(How I feel)
I'll make a fire when you are cold
Don′t worry darling, I′ll love you when you grow old

(How can I tell you?)
Six candles on your birthday cake
(How can I tell you?)
A Christmas card that I helped you make
(How I feel)
When you ran in your first race
The time I stuck ice cream in your face

(How can I tell you?)

(How can I tell you?)