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The Wind (Tears For You)
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Oct 29, 2026 updated
Everlasting Love album
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Song Meaning
CeCe Winans writes as someone who has already failed and fears asking again. "With all of my heart I know I could love you," she sings, yet "with all of my soul I'm driftin' away." The hinge of the song is the worry that she has used up mercy: "I'm so afraid you've forgiven one too many times." Offering her heart again risks a change of mind on the other side.
Wind carries the picture of that instability. It "blows and nobody know where it's goin' to," and she does not want to be found "driftin' away like the wind." Her confession is blunt ("I know I disappointed you") and tangled with the dread of losing the relationship and running out of time.
The last lines turn to tears falling "from Heaven's eyes," and she concludes that "these tears that fall could be fallin' for you." Heaven weeping over her, rather than shutting her out, answers the fear that forgiveness has a limit.
Lyrics Verified by Editorial Team
With all of my heart I know I could love you
But with all of my soul I'm driftin' away
And with all of my mind I know you can save me from
myself, and anything else
With all of my strength I wanna reach out for you
With every breath, call out your name
With every step I just want to turn around and say
Make it okay
But I'm so afriad you've forgiven one too many times
And I'm so afraid to give my heart again
Just to have a change of mind
And I'm not quite sure that you can trust me
And I would hate to have you find me again
Driftin' away like the wind
With all of my heart I know I disappointed you
And altough I'm real sorry I don't know how to say this time
But if I were to lose you I know, I know I'd go completely
Out of my mind, but I'm running out of time
But I'm so afriad you've forgiven one too many times
And I'm so afraid to give my heart again
Just to have a change of mind
And I'm not quite sure that you can trust me
And I would hate to have you find me again
Driftin' away like the wind
It blows and nobody know where it's goin' to
(Like the wind)
It blows and nobody know what it's gonna do
(Like the wind)
At night you can hear it cry as the teardrops fall
From Heaven's eyes and somehow you know it's true
These tears that fall could be fallin' for you