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LEAVING YOU FOR ME
[verse 1]
Late at night you call, you're lost somewhere in a bar
And in your slurry drunken voice, you ask me how things are
And when I don't know what to say, you’re suddenly down on me
You tell me I should come back home, it's where I ought to be
[bridge]
With you making love with me
[verse 2]
Darling I was there for so many years you know
And too much of the time I felt just empty and alone
I don't see the sense of feeling that again
Hear me when I say to you, we have reached the end
[chorus]
I'm leaving you for myself, I'm leaving you for me
There's no one else involved in this, I'm just making myself free
I'm leaving you for myself, I'm leaving you for me
I need to fill the emptiness I feel inside of me
[verse 3]
So now I'll turn to strangers to begin my life again
I think there will be someone there to help me as a friend
And maybe he’ll be willing to be more to me than new
And I can let him in my heart to take the place of you
[chorus]
I'm leaving you for myself, I'm leaving you for me
There's no one else involved in this, I'm just making myself free
I'm leaving you for myself, I'm leaving you for me
I need to fill the emptiness I feel inside of me
[verse 4]
You know I'll sometimes think of you with an aching in my heart
When I look back on what we had and how it came apart
But there's a gulf between us now and there's no bridge across
Somewhere in the drift of time, what we had was lost
[coda]
So I'm leaving you for myself, I'm leaving you for me
There's no one else involved in this, I'm just making myself free
I'm leaving you for myself, I'm leaving you for me
I need to fill the emptiness I feel inside of me
I need to fill the emptiness, so I'm leaving you for me
LEAVING YOU FOR ME
[verse 1]
Late at night you call, you're lost somewhere in a bar
And in your slurry drunken voice, you ask me how things are
And when I don't know what to say, you’re suddenly down on me
You tell me I should come back home, it's where I ought to be
[bridge]
With you making love with me
[verse 2]
Darling I was there for so many years you know
And too much of the time I felt just empty and alone
I don't see the sense of feeling that again
Hear me when I say to you, we have reached the end
[chorus]
I'm leaving you for myself, I'm leaving you for me
There's no one else involved in this, I'm just making myself free
I'm leaving you for myself, I'm leaving you for me
I need to fill the emptiness I feel inside of me
[verse 3]
So now I'll turn to strangers to begin my life again
I think there will be someone there to help me as a friend
And maybe he’ll be willing to be more to me than new
And I can let him in my heart to take the place of you
[chorus]
I'm leaving you for myself, I'm leaving you for me
There's no one else involved in this, I'm just making myself free
I'm leaving you for myself, I'm leaving you for me
I need to fill the emptiness I feel inside of me
[verse 4]
You know I'll sometimes think of you with an aching in my heart
When I look back on what we had and how it came apart
But there's a gulf between us now and there's no bridge across
Somewhere in the drift of time, what we had was lost
[coda]
So I'm leaving you for myself, I'm leaving you for me
There's no one else involved in this, I'm just making myself free
I'm leaving you for myself, I'm leaving you for me
I need to fill the emptiness I feel inside of me
I need to fill the emptiness, so I'm leaving you for me