You only see all the external But you never know how much it really took For me to get here And honestly, I still sometimes worry Even though I know that soon the sun will be shining All my worries behind me, oh Nobody knows what I lost Nobody knows what it cost Nobody knows how I tried To keep the tears from falling from my eyes Nobody knows how it hurt But, now I know just what its worth To go through some heartache and pain To suffer the storm and the rain You ask me how I am surviving But I'll tell you now, it's no doing of my own I don't deserve it But honestly, I'll keep pushing harder For soon my time will come and the world The world will see, it was all working for me, yeah And nobody knows what I lost Nobody knows what it cost Nobody knows how I tried To keep the tears from falling from my eyes Nobody knows how it hurt Now I know just what its worth To go through some heartache and pain To suffer the storm and the rain Never judge a book by its cover And don't compare yourself to another And because you never know what they're going through Or what it took to get to the place you see Nobody knows what I lost Nobody knows what it cost Nobody knows how I tried To keep the tears from falling from my eyes Nobody knows how it hurt But now I know just what its worth To go through some heartache and pain To suffer the storm and the rain