Alan Jay Lerner - How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Love You When You Know I've Been a Liar All My Life? lyrics

(Chorus) [TOM] How could you believe me when I said "I love you" when you know I've been a liar all my life? [ELLEN] You've had that reputation since you were a youth [TOM] You must have been insane to think I'd tell you the truth [ELLEN] How could you believe me when you said we'd marry [TOM] When you know I'd rather hang than have a wife I know I said I'd make you mine [ELLEN] Now wouldn't you know I would go for that old line? [TOM] How could you believe me when I said "I love you" when you know I've been a liar [ELLEN] You sure have been a liar [TOM] A double-crossing liar [ELLEN] A double-crossing liar [TOM] All my doggone cheatin' life (Verse) [ELLEN] You said you would love me long [TOM] So what? [ELLEN] And never would do me wrong [TOM] Stop bending the suit [ELLEN] Faithful you'd always be [TOM] Me? Why, baby, you must be loony to trust a lower-than-low two-timer like me [ELLEN] You said I'd have everything [TOM] Get her! [ELLEN] A beautiful diamond ring [TOM] Ha ha ha! [ELLEN] A bungalow by the sea [TOM] A bungalow, yet! You're really naive to ever believe a full-of-baloney phony like me [ELLEN] Boy, I sure must have lost my head [TOM] You ain't lost nothin' you never had (Chorus 2) [ELLEN] What about the time you went to Indiana? [TOM] I was lyin', I was down in Alabam' [ELLEN] You said you had some business to complete [TOM] What I was doin' I would be a cad to repeat [ELLEN] What about the evenings you was with your mother? [TOM] I was rompin' with another honey lamb [ELLEN] To think you swore our love was real [TOM] Baby, leave us not forget that I'm a heel [ELLEN] How could I believe you when you said you loved me [TOM] When you know I've been a liar [ELLEN] A good-for-nothing liar [TOM] All my good-for-nothing life (Spoken interlude) [ELLEN] This is the last time I'll ever go to a party with you [TOM] Will you put that in writing? [ELLEN] Oh, you're always making cracks! Making cracks! [TOM] Like what? [ELLEN] You're always humiliating me. Humiliating me! Didn't your mother never teach you no manners? [TOM] I never had a mother. We was too poor [ELLEN] Hey, what's the matter with you lately? You used to tell me you loved me. You used to treat me like a high-cla** dame. Well, usedn't you to? [TOM] So I used [ELLEN] So now you admit it [TOM] I ain't admittin' nothing [ELLEN] I'll give you one more chance. Do you love me, or don't you? [TOM] No, I don't [ELLEN] Quit stalling! I want a direct answer! (Outro) [ELLEN] You know you've been a liar [TOM] I know I've been a liar [ELLEN] A double-crossing liar {TOM] A double-crossing liar [ELLEN] All your double-crossing life