Why do you treat me as if I were only a friend

What have I done that has made you so distant and cold

Sometimes I wonder if you'll be contented again

Will you be happy when you are withered and old



I cannot offer you diamonds and mansions, so fine

I cannot offer you clothes you're young body craves

But if you'll say that you long to forever be mine

Think of the heartaches and the tears and the sorrows you'll save



While I am writing this letter I think of the past

And all the promises that you are breakin' so free

But to this cruel world I'll soon say my farewell at last

I will be gone when you read this last letter from me



When you are lonely and tired of another man's gold

When you are lonely, remember this letter, my own

Don't try to answer though I'll suffer anguish untold

If you don't love me I wish you would leave me alone