babe it took a long long time to get it out this way now that the hurtin s over all i ve got to say that i know sure as i am living it takes more than forgiving cause it ain t been easy i know you did your best to please me how can you love me after all the years we ve tried after all the tears you ve cried after our love has died babe i ve seen some pretty faces everywhere i go i say now maybe i ain t the same person that you used to know but i know in my heart i m livin for the love you ve given and the foolish thing about it is that i thought i d live without it how can you love me when you know i ve been with someone else and i ain t too happy with myself but i keep on comin back around ooh sometimes it feels like i m gone forever ooh it gets so hard to wait ooh we re far away and it ain t gettin better well i know that somethin is surely wrong when i feel this way well i can t go on and on