Baby, how could I have been so vain

To make you think that you're the only one to blame.

For all these distances and all of this pain

Baby, how could I have been so blind

To presuppose that your needs were just like mine

You've been a prisoner for a long, long time.

But now you run from me

And I will set you free

If that's the way it must be.



I tried so hard to make you part of me

That every time I looked at you

I thought I'd see

Someone that you could never ever be.

So full of pride that I could not see straight

I thought you'd change

If I could only wait

I see the truth now but it's much too late

Cause now you run from me

And I will set you free

If that's the way it must be.



Chorus

Oh--oh--baby how'd it ever get so cold and mean

Oh--oh. Is there nothing left but silence in between.



(Repeat Chorus)



Baby how'd we hold on so long

To something both of us must have known was wrong

We're either fools or must be terrible strong.

Cause now you run from me.

And I will set you free

If that's the way it must be.