What Hurts The Most

You had a darkness buried in your tooth

A quiet pain a cat could not show

So I carried you into strange white rooms

To take away what hurt you so

Now you hide when I come near you

You growl and turn your eyes away

How can I tell you, little love

I never meant to make you afraid

This hand that holds you still

Is the hand that holds you dear

(This is love, this is love)

I wish you could see through the fear

Sometimes what hurts the most

Is what saves our life

(What saves our life)

Sometimes the loving hand

Feels like the cruelest knife

(It’s love, not hate)

Oh, what hurts the most

What hurts the most

May be what makes us whole

(What makes us whole)

I’m not your enemy, my love

I’m trying to bring you home

There is a pill beneath my fingers

And sorrow trembling in my chest

You fight the thing that brings you comfort

You cannot know I know what’s best

And maybe we are just like you are

When mercy comes in painful clothes

We curse the friend who finds the wound

And fear the hand that helps it close

How do I say, "Please trust me"

To a cat without words

(Please trust me, please trust me)

How do I make my love be heard

Maybe every soul must wonder

Why the healing feels so cruel

But the friend who shows us what must mend

May be the one most true

Sometimes what hurts the most

Is what saves our life

(What saves our life)

Sometimes the loving hand

Feels like the cruelest knife

(It’s love, not hate)

Oh, what hurts the most

What hurts the most

May be what makes us whole

(What makes us whole)

Please don’t be afraid of me, my love

I’m trying to bring you home

(Bring you home, bring you home)

I’m only trying to bring you home