If You Can't Love Me

If You Can't Love Me - Sting

Written by：Sting/Dominic Miller/Vinnie Colaiuta

Please sit down just talk to me

We'll see if we can talk this through

I've tried so hard to understand it

Just tell me something that's close to the truth

I'd rather you were cruel than kind

Is all that I'm demanding

I've given up on peace of mind

For you open wound of understanding

You can't be here and someplace else

If your mind is in that other place

You're trying to convince yourself

But you're lying in my face

I've listened 'til my head would spin

I don't want half of anything

The sand sits in the hourglass

And time slips through our fingers fast

Your counterfeits deceived me

If you can't love me this way

Then you must leave me

Tell me how it came to this

Just don't think to spare me this

Perhaps the truth can set us free

From the half truths ensnaring you and me

This black hole of intensity

Collapses on its density

And sucks me to a darker place

That hides behind a broken face

Keep up appearances they say

And all those reasons you might stay

Ring hollow in my mind today

I've listened 'til my head would spin

I don't want half of anything

I don't want half of anything

The fields are sown with seeds of doubt

The wine is warm you spit it out

This drinking won't relieve me

If you can't love me this way

If you can't love me this way

If you can't love me this way

Then you must leave me

The patterns in the distant stars

Our fates upon a loom

The changes in the temperature

When you walked into a room

The smell of your perfume

The taste of your skin

All those bitter reminders

Of the failed state I'm in

How do I breathe now how do I inhale

I'm a diver on the seabed my oxygen's failed

How do I wake up how do I sleep

How do I laugh now I can't even weep

Where do I run to where do I hide

An insect preserved in formaldehyde

Yesterday's paper its pages curled

How can I live in this broken world

Keep up appearances they say

But all those reasons you might stay

Ring hollow in my mind today

I've listened 'til my head would spin

I don't want half of anything

I don't want half of anything

The sand it falls in the hour glass

And time slips through our fingers fast

And nothing that you say relieves me

If you can't love me this way

If you can't love me this way

If you can't love me this way

Then you must leave me