Could I Leave You

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 the 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 I'm 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 the 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 ninety percent of the money you make

And the rugs and the cooks

Darling you keep the d**gs

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 godd**n minute

Oh 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