how you once loved me

i've passed the point of reason

of caring how i feel

what used to matter most to me

has no importance now

i wish i knew how to love again

i kept most all your presents

in the bureau down the hall

and when i'm into huting me

i look them thru

and i think of you

and how you loved me

how you once loved me

how we once loved

how could i ever know

you meant to love me so

we got so far to go

how could you ever know

i meant to love you

too

there are no rhymes or reasons

why people carry on

from the day young girls discover

they're different from little boys

and love is just a toy

they can play with

and we were just as foolish

now i can't be that way

maybe you feel just as strange

and too afraid to say

i can find a way to say i love you