I can see that you're discouraged
like you think that it's never ever gonna change
and maybe I'm to blame
there's not a whole lot I can do now,
though I should have seen it coming when I saw you go
but I want you to know

there's nothing wrong with you
you just need to follow through on
the things you set out to do long ago
it sounds odd to come from me
and I can fake sincerity
as well as anybody can
but that's not what I'm doing this time
and I don't really know the best way to convey it
I'm just gonna say it I believe in you.


I think about it so often
the little things that I could have done differently
if I'd known what they'd be
I don't know why it surprised me
I should have seen where it was going when you came apart


but there's nothing wrong with you
you just never made it through all
the things that were done to you long ago
I hope you realize how you figure in my eyes,
and how much worse the world would be
if there wasn't anything like you
in it and how you're someone well worth knowing
I hope you keep on going I believe in you.

I know you're lonely and you don't really understand why things
haven't workded out as you planned long ago
but you will find your way and I'll run into you one day
and you'll tell me that you're okay
and all about the tremendous things you've done
and how you've won the day and where you plan to take
it I think you're gonna make it
I believe in you.