Nothing I'd say or I could do   Could move the mountains from your view   Nothing I see or I could show   There's only darkness now I know      I should have been there to inspire you   Not paint your world a cold, cold blue   I should have been there to inspire you   I could have told you truthful too   I believed in you, told you truthful too      I should have been there   Within your reach   This is not self pity,yeah   Of which I speak      I never took time to see how you'd grown   I never took the care it takes to know   Never took the time to see what you'd found   (Never took the time to see what you'd found)   Oh, had the time to bring you down      I should have been there to inspire you   Not paint your world a cold, cold blue   I should have been there to inspire you   I could have told you truthful too   I believed in you, told you truthful too      I could have been there   I could have been there      More than all this I do not know   Only that love is here to show   Someone a world to be themselves   A place to fall when all else fails      Friends harsh words cut deep and sore   But believe me mine will hurt me more   In those moments before I sleep   When I am truly alone to see      I should have been there to inspire you   Not paint your world a cold, cold blue   I should have been there to inspire you   I could have told you truthful too      I should have been there to inspire you   Not paint your world a cold, cold blue   I should have been there to inspire you   I could have told you truthful too   I believed in you, told you truthful too      Ohh, I believed in you, yeah   (Told you truthful too)   Yeah, I believed in you   (Told you truthful too)