You said that you'd love me forever
We'd marry and then have some kids
But I knew weeks after we talked that
This relationship was on the skids

I tried to break up once but you then
Blackmailed with threatened suicide
You said you could not live without me
Later we found out that you had lied

That summer when you met that new guy
You tried to make me jealous when
You told me how you were so tempted
To go to where I'd already been

My new girl was all that you were not
Even though we were so shortly through
But she gave me reason to hope that
I could find someone other —
I could find someone better than you.

CHORUS
Sometimes you just know when it's right
Sometimes you don't know when it's wrong
You mistake the start of a fight
For the sound of the true love's gong
Sometimes you get fooled that it's right
You think that you truly belong
Sometimes it takes you years to find out
What you thought then was right then was wrong

I hear you're married and have some kids
The rumor says you're happy in a sense
And I remain childless and alone
My relief is in no way a pretense

If we'd married, I'd be in prison
Don't mean in a metaphorical way
I mean I'd be in jail for murder
I'd have killed you shortly after
Shortly after our wedding day

CHORUS

If we'd married, I'd be in prison
Don't mean in a metaphorical way
I mean I'd be in jail for murder
I'd have killed you shortly after
Not so very, very long after
Shortly after our wedding day

CHORUS