I wanna show you that I care 
But I don't have the nerve 
I wanna say I love you 
But I can't find the words 
I wish that you could know how I 
Really felt all of this time 
But no matter what I do 
You can't see the signs

He was an average teen, he partied often and he sagged his jeans 
Sat in the very back of the class so he could nap and dream 
And fantasize about the girl he was obsessed with 
The one who stole his heart and always kept it 
'Cause ever since the seventh grade, she was always standin' 
in his center stage 
But every time he tried to talk to her, she would just step away 
And though she never spoke to him, it didn't matter 
'Cause Billy never liked the chit-chatter 
So what if a little passive? To him she was attractive 
He could sense a massive personality perfectly by the way she acted 
Plus she wrote poems for the paper every month 
It was the lines on the page that had him fallin' in love 
But he never told his friends, they would say that he was crazy 
So no one ever found out that Billy liked Amy 
He just gracefully endured, being blatantly ignored 
But sooner or later, Billy wouldn't take it anymore 

I wanna show you that I care 
But I don't have the nerve 
I wanna say I love you 
But I can't find the words 
I wish that you could know how I 
Really felt all of this time 
But no matter what I do 
You can't see the signs

He was an average teen, he partied often and he sagged his jeans 
Sat in the very back of the class so he could nap and dream 
And fantasize about the girl he was obsessed with 
The one who stole his heart and always kept it 
So he's takin' his chances, day after day of wasted advances 
He was always lonely without a date for the dances 
'Till he decided that he would try to do something bold 
He would make his feelings known by reciting her a poem 
Like the poems she was publishing every month in the paper 
He grabbed a pen and pad and then he labored 
Sat and he crafted it, and then he practiced it, had to have it immaculate 
But half of it just ended up scribbled and trash basketed 
'Till he finally mastered it, and recited it perfectly 
Yo this was a life or death emergency 
But you can't be nervous, B, you could risk it all 
So you need to stand tall, and approach her in the hall (deep breath) 
"Yo what up tuts? I'm at the entrance of your palace 
And I think that I been starin' at aurora borealis 
You shine so bright that you could light up the sky 
And Columbus with [bad word] would get lost in your eyes" 
But her reaction was absurd 
All she did was stare back without sayin' a single word 
And gave him a weird look 
She tried sayin' something with her hands but she couldn't 
'cause she was carryin' books 
But that was all that it took, Billy was too [bad word] 
Had [bad word] away so nobody would see the [bad word] 
And for the rest of the week, he locked himself in his apartment 
'Cause he didn't have the strength to face the world so broken-hearted 
After seven days of darkness, got a letter in the mail 
But before he even looked at it, he let that ship sail 
He was too concerned with all the sadness in his life 
So instead of a letter opener he grabbed a kitchen knife 

I wanna show you that I care 
But I don't have the nerve 
I wanna say I love you 
But I can't find the words 
I wish that you could know how I 
Really felt all of this time 
But no matter what I do 
You can't see the signs

She was far from your average teen, the quiet type who 
never had a scene 
Studied often and wrote poems for the school magazine 
She had a little secret and she always kept it 
There was a boy that she was obsessed with 
So when she wrote a poem for the school paper every month 
Every line on the page was dedicated