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
Whe 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

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

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

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



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Kent Newsome & Ronnie Jeffrey
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