i met her sadly in the slowly falling rain crying softly in her loneliness and pain knowing no one needin someone bad as me and she told me as i held her trembling hand walking slowly how she d never known a man living lonely in her cottage by the sea when the morning came her tears had changed to laughter and before the night her heart beat close to mine and i thought as she lay sleeping bout the secrets she was keeping hidden somewhere in the silence of the shadows of her mind in the morning as i wakened with the dawn without warning i could feel that she was gone leaving nothing but her silence next to me and lonely footprints that i followed in the sand walking slowly for i knew where they would end disappearing in the silence of the sea and i sometimes hear the echoe of her laughter as i search for what i know i ll never find for the answer i was seeking was the secrets she s still keeping hidden somewhere in the silence of the shadows of her mind hidden somewhere in the silence of the shadows of her mind 