I’ll Never Love You

Baby
I always loved you
Even when you were putting me on

Baby
I still love you
Even though I'm long gone

Wake up
In a pile of garbage
You were my darling
But not for real
You healed my broken chains
I was in love with you
I was insane

Even in the worst times
We were more or less free
But it was the good times
That made it hard for me to see
That you were only playing
Only playing games
You were good at pointing fingers
I was good at naming names

If I could do it all over
Well you know that I wouldn't
I never understood it
But maybe I was never meant to

Show me your knife
Hold the phone for ransom
You said I was handsome
For a chauvinist pig

Baby
Won't you tell me what happened?
I don't care what happened
I only hope that you're okay
At least for today
You never needed me
Anyway

Maybe you got clean
Maybe you went straight
Back to hell where you came from
Maybe it's too late
But in case you're still kickin'
Or even want to make amends
Go on ahead and apologize
To one-a your temporary
Friends

I don't care what they say
I thought you were beautiful
You were beautiful
You were beautiful to me

Did it make you tough?
Did it make you strong?
Always pointing out
Where everybody's wrong?
Isolating yourself
In some backwards effort
To belong

I was a fool
And everybody knew it
If you can find something to do
You can find a reason to do it
There's a million ways to dig a hole
But there's only one way out
Of one thing I have no doubt:

No matter how much you hate me
I'll never love you
Turn out the lights
And let the telephone ring

I don't owe you nothin'
And you don't owe me
Whatever you're doing
Wherever you're staying
Just stay
Stay away from me
Stay away from me
Away from me
Stay away from me

©2002 Nathan Payne