Could I Leave You? Songtext
von David Kernan

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
Solemn 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 games 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?
Haha, bet your ass
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 Brocks 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 drugs, 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 goddamn minute!

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!