If You Can't Love Me - Sting.mp3

[00:21.88]Please sit down, just talk to me,
[00:23.92]We'll see if we can talk this through,
[00:27.31]I've tried so hard to understand it,
[00:29.95]Just tell me something that's close to the truth…
[00:32.94]I'd rather you were cruel than kind,
[00:36.22]Is all that I'm demanding,
[00:39.06]I've given up on peace of mind,
[00:42.11]For the open wound of understanding.
[00:44.05]
[00:45.89]You can't be here and someplace else,
[00:48.58]If your mind is in that other place,
[00:51.57]You're trying to convince yourself,
[00:54.26]But you're lying in my face,
[00:56.90]I've listened ‘til my head would spin,
[01:00.64]I don't want half of anything.
[01:02.83]
[01:04.07]The sand sits in the hourglass,
[01:06.81]Time slips through our fingers fast,
[01:09.79]Your counterfeits deceived me,
[01:12.84]If you can't love me this way,
[01:16.27]Then you must leave me.
[01:19.26]
[01:25.33]Tell me how it came to this,
[01:27.77]Just don't think to spare me this,
[01:30.70]Perhaps the truth can set us free,
[01:33.94]From the half truths ensnaring you and me,
[01:37.23]This black hole of intensity,
[01:40.02]Collapses on its density,
[01:42.86]And sucks me to a darker place,
[01:45.94]That hides behind a broken face.
[01:47.98]
[01:49.08]Keep up appearances they say,
[01:52.01]And all those reasons you might stay,
[01:54.91]Ring hollow in my mind today,
[01:58.00]I've listened ‘til my head would spin,
[02:01.23]I don't want half of anything,
[02:04.17]I don't want half of anything.
[02:07.35]The fields are sown with seeds of doubt,
[02:09.89]The wine is warm, you spit it out,
[02:13.07]This drinking won't relieve me,
[02:16.72]If you can't love me this way,
[02:22.49]If you can't love me this way,
[02:28.21]If you can't love me this way,
[02:31.41]Then you must leave me.
[02:34.64]
[02:41.03]The patterns in the distant stars,
[02:43.92]Our fates upon a loom,
[02:46.90]The changes in the temperature,
[02:49.49]When you walked into a room,
[02:52.79]The smell of your perfume,
[02:55.17]The taste of your skin,
[02:59.35]All those bitter reminders,
[03:01.40]Of the failed state I'm in.
[03:03.19]
[03:04.78]How do I breathe now, how do I inhale?
[03:08.31]I'm a diver on the seabed, my oxygen's failed.
[03:11.50]How do I wake up, how do I sleep?
[03:13.69]How do I laugh now, I can't even weep?
[03:16.87]Where do I run to, where do I hide?
[03:19.76]An insect preserved in formaldehyde,
[03:23.20]Yesterday's paper its pages curled,
[03:26.04]How can I live in this broken world?
[03:28.23]
[03:29.32]Keep up appearances they say,
[03:31.96]But all those reasons you might stay,
[03:35.25]Ring hollow in my mind today,
[03:38.28]I've listened ‘til my head would spin,
[03:41.27]I don't want half of anything,
[03:44.16]I don't want half of anything.
[03:46.55]
[03:47.95]The sand it falls in the hour glass,
[03:50.63]And time slips through our fingers fast,
[03:54.12]And nothing that you say relieves me,
[03:57.20]If you can't love me this way,
[04:01.93]If you can't love me this way,
[04:08.55]If you can't love me this way,
[04:12.03]Then you must leave me.