What You Know and What You Feel

She’s always out sowing oats
While I’m trying to put down roots
Should I let go or hold on
When either way I lose

Cause though she doesn’t love me
I keep thinking one day she might
When she’s through doing me wrong
Maybe she’ll do me right

Chorus:
Then she smiles at me
And my frozen heart melts like ice
One day she’s as mean as a snake
The next she’s all sweetness and light
I’m caught between what I wish
And what I know is real
Between what I know and what I feel

I see every tear coming
Before it even leaves my eyes
I start making excuses
Soon as she starts to lie

I’ve always been her old dog
She kicks me and I come right back
I have tried a few new tricks
But they all end the same

I used to pretend she’d change
Now I’m afraid I never will
And when I am old and gray
She’ll be hurting me still

Bridge:
When your heart keeps getting broken
There’s only one chance for it to heal
You’ve got to learn the difference
Between what you know and what you feel