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 your young body crave   But if you'll say that you long to forever be mine   Think of the heartaches the tears and the sorrows you'll save      While I am writing this letter I think of the past   And of the promises that you are breaking so free   But to this cruel world I'll soon say my farewell at last   I will be gone when you'll 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   But don't try to answer though I've suffered anguish untold   If you don't love me I just wish you would leave me alone