All Said and Done

All the words in the world

Wouldn't make you stay this evening;

Though I scrabble around for any I can say,

So hard to take our leave,

So hard to stop believing.

I guess we know this silence well enough,

And you'll be going by and by;

I'm scared that anything I offer

Might be taken for a lie.

All said and done,

And there's no way to make it any different.

I hold my tongue as you're walking away.

So goodbye comes -

Oh, I don't want to make it difficult

But nothing's easy when there's nothing left to say.

Now we only talk as though time were heavy weather

With a storm-cloud brewing on each hasty phrase...

All the words in the world wouldn't put us back together.

Maybe we had our opportunities...

Most of those chances passed us by;

I'm scared that anything I offer

Might be taken as a bribe.

All said and done,

And there's no way to make it any different.

I hold my tongue as you're walking away.

So goodbye comes -

Oh, I don't want to make it difficult

But nothing's easy when there's nothing left to say.