I Know You Know

I can see you in my mind's eye
 Whiskey and cigarettes - you won't cry
 Afraid a tear might spill your cup over
 And you'd just drown in the overflow
 flooded by a truth you don't wanna know
 So you empty your cup, never quenching your thirst
 Well there's a hard rain ready to blow
 Waiting for you to say you know
 And I know you know
 I can hear you in every word I say
 wishing you would hear yourself that way
 but a voice that loud might shatter glass
 Then your house could come crashing down
 And cut you with it's piercing sound
 And your heart might never stop bleeding for you
 Oh what a shame that you won't just let the rain
 Ever really show you all the life that it could bring
 It hurts leaving you behind
 But I've already wasted so much time
 Cause you're not getting better
 And I can't wait forever
 I can feel you in everything I do
 Wishing that you could do it too
 But I think by now you ought to know you can
 But you refuse to try
 So tell me baby, why should I
 Well I think now that I ought to try not to