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I Really Did Like You Susan Fewster

I really did like you Susan Fewster.
 Even when I said, 'Well I don't like her!'
 When you were absent from school that day 
 And your classmates made me aware
 When they told me that you liked me and I blurted out, 
 'Well I don't like her!'
 Please forgive me, I was childish, 
 I was shy and I really, really did care

 My mouth may have blurted out those words, 
 But my heart said something else,
 I was just embarrassed, young and stupid, 
 And I thought that's what 
 Boys were supposed to say

 But I really did like you Susan Fewster
 You were the modernist girl in 3B
 But I was shocked and maybe a little amazed that day 
 When your friends said 
 That you actually liked me
 Because there were so many other boys in the class
 Good looking and full of swagger
 And I sadly regret that day when I plunged teenage loves young dagger

 And your 'friends' just couldn't wait to tell you 
 Those hurtful words I said 
 Each word hammering the anvil 
 And left ringing in my head
 And after that day you tried to show,
 Your dislike for me
 But just before you left the school I had one last opportunity 
 To say the words, to put things right, but I just sat there silently, 
 Childishly believing that you might actually show some pity for me

 And it's haunted me through the years as 
 I've thought about 
 Those cruel words I said
 At such a tender age, killing love stone dead
 So finally, here are the words that I truly always wanted to say, 
 That I really did like you Susan Fewster
 You were the modernist girl in 3B
 You were pretty, you were lovely
 And I'm glad that you once had a moment for me.

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