Could I Leave You? (Live)

Could I Leave You? (Live) - Michael Ball

Lyrics by：Stephen Sondheim

Composed by：Stephen Sondheim

Produced by：Cameron Mackintosh/Lee McCutcheon/Stephen Metcalfe

Leave you leave you

How could I leave you

How could I go it alone

Could I wave the years away

With a quick goodbye

How do you wipe tears away

When your eyes are dry

Sweetheart lover

Could I recover

Give up the joys I have known

Not to fetch your pills again every day at five

Not to give those dinners for ten

Elderly men from the UN

How could I survive

Could I leave you

And your shelves of the world's best books

And your evenings of martyred looks

Cryptic sighs

Sullen glares from those injured eyes

Leave the quips with a sting

Jokes with a sneer

Passionless lovemaking once a year

Leave the lies ill-concealed

And the wounds never healed

And the game's not worth winning

And wait just beginning

What leave you leave you

How could I leave you

What would I do on my own

Putting thoughts of you aside

In the south of france

Would I think of suicide

Darling shall we dance

Could I live through the pain

On a terrace in spain

Would it pass

It would pass

Could I bury my rage

With a boy half your age in the grass

Bet your a*s

But I've done that already

Or didn't you know love

Tell me how could I leave

When I left long ago love

Could I leave you

No the point is could you leave me

Well I guess you could leave me that house

Leave me the flat

Leave me the braques

And chagalls and all that

You could leave me the stocks

For sentiment's sake

And 90 percent of the money you make

And the rugs and the cooks

Darling you keep the drugs

Angel you keep the books

Honey I'll take the grand

Sugar you keep the spinet

And all of our friends

And just wait a goddamn minute

Leave you

Leave you

How could I leave you

Sweetheart I have to confess

Could I leave you

Yes

Will I leave you

Will I leave you

Guess