I tried so hard my dear to show that you're my every dream
Yet you're afraid each thing I do is just some evil scheme

A mem'ry from your lonesome past keeps us so far apart

Why can't I free your debtful mind and melt your cold cold heart

Another love before my time made your heart sad and blue
And so my heart is paying now for things I didn't do

In anger unkind words are said that make the teardrops start

Why can't I free your debtful mind and melt your cold cold heart

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The more I learn to care for you the more we drift apart
Why can't I free your debtful mind and melt your cold cold heart