I Never Should Have Loved You

I never should have loved you

I know that now

for even then I saw

good-bye in your eyes.

You were so innocent, so naive..,

You were everything I thought

I ever needed to see.

I never should have loved you

you never really knew me.

Mama told you what to believe,

Papa called you a fool

to love a dreamer, an artist,

A man who lived only

by his own rules.

I never should have loved

you but your tears blinded me.

I thought you understood.

Instead you slipped thru my fingers.

You offered me a dagger

and then cut into my soul.

I was young when I met you

but our good-bye had turned me so old.

Now, if ever I think of you

I whisper to myself

I never should have loved you,

you were only fool's gold.