If I say that I love you, will you just leave me alone?   I don't know what more I can do,    to keep you happy, to call my own.      If I said that I hate you, would you just sink like a stone?   Would you break out the champagne,   to celebrate the breaking of another backbone?      If I said that I need you, would you remind me I don't?   Would you climb down inside me?   Help bail water from this leaking boat.      If I say that I'm leavin, all my courage in a gutless note,   Oh man that way would be easy,   with all those big words stuck in my throat.      So unmask sign and spic and span, sing a song I'll understand.   Give me something to believe,   another love song is the last thing we need.      We all need.      If I say that I love you, would you just leave me alone?