While I'm Learning You

I'm learning how to read the signs

The ones that hide between the lines

When you need to hear me say it

And you're not asking me to say it

For quite some time I had no clue

Why I had to keep saying what we both knew

This silent request

Just reassurance I guess

So here I am feeling much the same

I need to hear you say those words, followed by my name

It keeps the tires burning, while I'm learning

It keeps the fires burning, while I'm learning you

I'm learning to apologize

Even when I don't know why

And when not to say a thing

With no understanding

And what is want and what is need

And what you really want from me

And if it's all of my affection

I could use a little direction

You could take me for granted and that's a fact

That's OK to say but don't act on that

Ideals rarely work the way we humans act

So that was a dumb thing to say, never mind