You cannot force

people to love you

or people to apologise

or anyone to lend you money

But Lord knows you try.

Don't you see, I can't

belong to anyone?

I am everybody's darling and

nobody's sweetheart?

I am the plague of men

and the relief of many?

This body I vowed to keep to myself

This mind I swore was my own

This soul is too precious to

let

anyone

touch

I fear that you're failing

and think that you're ailing for

love of a nobody nonsense dream

And you sicken for something

you have created inside your head

Oh let your dreams go!

It's cruel to keep them

so starved and thin

blanched like people

who have seen death

Please don't weep for me

Lord knows, I can't swim