I loved you once in silence   And misery was all I knew   Trying so to keep my love from showing   All the while not knowing you loved me too      Yes, loved me in lonesome silence   Your heart filled with dark despair   Knowing love would flame in you forever   And I'd never, never know the flame was there      Then one day we cast away our secret longing   The raging tide we held inside would hold no more      The silence at last was broken, we flung wide our prison door   Every joyous word of love was spoken   And now there's twice much grief, twice the strain for us   Twice the despair, twice the pain for us   As we had known before      The silence at last was broken, we flung wide our prison door   Every joyous word of love was spoken   And after all had been said, here we are, my love   Silent once more and not far, my love   From where we were before