If I say that I love you, will you just leave me alone? I don't know what more I can do, To keep you happy, to call my own. If I said that I hate you, would you just sink like a stone? Would you break out the champagne, To celebrate the breaking of another backbone? If I said that I need you, would you remind me I don't? Would you climb down inside me? Help bail water from this leaking boat. If I say that I'm leavin, all my courage in a gutless note, Oh man that way would be easy, With all those big words stuck in my throat. So unmask sign and spic and span, sing a song I'll understand. Give me something to believe, Another love song is the last thing we need. We all need. If I say that I love you, would you just leave me alone?