Betcha Wouldn't Hurt Me
Quincy Jones Lyrics

Loving you came easily
I fell in love with you too quickly and easily.

Yet it made me blind to all there was to see
Being in love with you blinded me to reality and the problems in our relationship.

Now my heart is filled with pain
I am emotionally hurt and in pain because of the way you treated me.

You understand I never will
I will never comprehend why you stopped loving me.

How did it come to be that you don't love me still?
I don't know how our love faded away.

Now it's getting to be plain
It is becoming more and more obvious to me why you don't love me anymore.

If you really cared about anyone else
If you truly cared for someone other than yourself,

I know you wouldn't hurt me
You would not have hurt me the way you did.

If you cared about more than yourself
If you had concern for anyone besides yourself,

I bet ya wouldn't go
You would not have left me.

You wouldn't walk out the door
You would have stayed with me instead of leaving.

Though some days the blues was our parade,
Although we had our ups and downs,

Still we marched through all the tears we made
We fought through all of our conflicts and hardships together.

Now I find that it wasn't no game of charades that you played
I realize now that you were not just playing games with me.

I did my best to bring you joy
I tried my hardest to make you happy.

How can you just leave me like a broken toy?
I can't understand how you could leave me so easily and carelessly.

Where's the man that once was you?
Where is the person I fell in love with?

If I could be within your mind
If I could read your thoughts and understand your feelings,

I would never think to treat you this unkind
I would never have treated you as poorly as you treated me.

The pain you caused will come to you
You will eventually experience the same pain and hurt you caused me.