Last Words

I know now

What it is that I do.

I can see how

I bring such troubles to you.

And you smile through it all,

And I swear nothing's more beautiful than that.

But I swear too that you've built me up on a pedestal

And I don't deserve to be where your attentions are at.

But if I somehow do,

Because I've seen how you look at me,

Then it could be something new:

This emotion we have come to be.

I have felt it so many times, you know,

In so many different ways.

I've felt it die and live and grow.

I've felt it for hours and for centuries and for days.

I have been here before,

And I will be again

In days yet to occur:

Those spoilers from which I should refrain.

Yet there is something about you,

Godess of my heart that you are...

This is something very distinctly new

And the words from my lips are never far.

They echo sometimes, when you're gone,

In the voice of another.

They tell me that I'll have to go on

Even when you're replaced by another.

And the things I do to you

The troubles I bring your way...!

We~ll, it's hardly anything new

To think my best friend will be gone one day.

But I can't say these words you want me to, just the same

Don't ask me to say them to you now.

I can barely bring myself not to fear the sound of your name

When the question isn't when or who... but how.

So I will leave you behind in the end,

And keep these words hidden close to my hearts.

And as I must, I'll bitterly, regretfully defend

My belief that all endings are also starts.

It doesn't matter where or how we go,

Because you see: I truly do!

I do- well- oh, you know!

I cannot voice these feelings, it's true.

I can say goodbye,

I've had to say it to friends in the past.

But if I say this, something in me will die...

Because I don't want it to be my last.

So when you stand by the sea with eyes so blue,

All filled with tears all fresh and painful and new...

I refuse to say "Rose Tyler, I love you...!"

I just don't want it to be the last time I say that to you.

And any time we're together, you see,

Could be the very last that we know.

So if it's those words, don't ask them of me...

'Cause I don't want these feelings to go.

I don't want this love to fade away

Into the annals of memories, like everything I know.

I just want the one thing I believe in to stay.

My Rose Tyler, you see, I don't want us to go.