Building up a cotton sky, clouds are drifting high and wide They look like castles drawn within a child's mind Raise my hand to touch them, but then I realized That I had only seen them from one side Clouds can rise to a towering wall Then drop their snow to cover all They dim the day and hush the light Turn the sky to sudden night Reached out to stop them, only then I realized This is the vision from another's eyes We only see what we are shown, and know what we are told We miss the truth that sits beneath the fold We hear the parts we wanna hear Ignore that doesn't shine or sing But that's just half of everything We fall in love with what we see Not always who someone might be We paint a face we long to find Then break when it's not right I held on tight, and now I realize That I had only seen them from one side