You know I don't know what it is I should tell you
You know I don't know what it is I should say
You know that I wish that I knew I could tell you
A something to make all your fears go away

And you nod and you cry and you wrap me around
With your watery smile and your arms without sound
And you cry and you beg and you think I don't know
When you smile and you cry in your unfelt 'hello.'

You know that I know that you're dying inside
And you know that I know every time that you've cried
And you know that I know that you'll never feel less
Than you do at this moment, until you confess

'Cause you nod and you cry and you wrap me around
With your watery smile and your arms without sound
And when I know you better than you, this you know:
Why think you can pass with an unfelt 'hello?'

So you stare into space, past my shoulder it seems
And you know that I know that you know what it means
And I know that you know that if you call, I will run
And I'll hold you and keep you while you come undone

So don't nod and don't cry and don't wrap me around
With your arms as you're pulling me down to the ground
All I want from you every day, don't you know
Is just something more than an unfelt 'hello.'