Don’t say I love you, I won’t say that I care
   I’ll pretend I never kissed you, or held you, or worshipped you
   I swear
   I’ll live in denial for as long as I live
   Cuz *what I need baby, this love just can’t give
   We have to walk away
   We have to walk away
   
   I’ll try not to sing, you’ll try not to talk with those lips
   We’ll forget all the sweet memories, and now we'll just go with what
   is
   Cuz this love ain’t loving, and I don’t know why
   But anything that stands so still can’t be alive
   We have to walk away
   We have to walk away
   
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   But there were times our love was, so sweet
   And it’s *memory that makes me want to make it last
   But you can’t make love work, anymore than you can make it leave
   And it’s then you gotta leave it yourself
   
   [refrain2]
   Cuz when love ain’t loving but still ain’t leaving
   It’s then you gotta leave it yourself
   
   Now jealousy can ride your heart like a sick kind of pony
   And envy’s just the same
   And your loneliness can consume you no matter how much love you had
   And when it all boils down, baby, there’s no other way
   And I *care much more than to make you stay
   We have to walk away
   We have to walk away
   
   So at night, when darkness fills me,
   I’ll pretend you never spoke my name
   When I’m sitting home that lonely,
   I’ll pretend you’re home and lonely, oh just the same
   And I’ll pretend this sorrow, this sorrow will pass
   And I’ll try to pretend that this loneliness won’t last
   And that I’ll walk away
   yeah, yeah, yeah
   
   refrain
   repeat
   refrain2
   repeat
   
   So don’t say
   So don’t say I love you
   I won’t say that I care