The hardest thing I've done or that I'll ever do Was to just walk off and leave you But I knew I had to leave you 'Cause I couldn't stay and watch you Falling out of love with me The worst pain that I've ever known Or that I'll ever know Was to see your love-a-dying And to have to watch it dying And I couldn't stand to watch you Falling out of love with me I'm hurting now, but still it's better I left while love was still alive It was dying and I'd rather I didn't have to watch it die The loneliest I've ever been Or that I'll ever be Now that I'm without you But I couldn't stand to watch you Falling out of love with me I'm crying now, but still it's better I left while love was still alive It was dying and I'd rather I didn't have to watch it die