If I Can't Love Her - Terrence Mann

And in my twisted face

There’s not the slightest trace

Of anything that even hints at kindness

And from my tortured shape

No comfort, no escape

I see, but deep within is utter blindness

Hopeless

As my dream dies

As the time flies

Love a lost illusion

Helpless

Unforgiven

Cold and driven

To this sad conclusion

No beauty could move me No goodness improve me No power on earth, if I can’t love her

No passion could reach me No lesson could teach me How I could have loved her and make her love me too

If I can’t love her then who?

Long ago I should have seen

All the thing I could have been

Careless and unthinking I moved onward

No pain could be deeper

No life could be cheaper

No point anymore if I can’t love her

No spirit could win me No hope left within me Hope I could have loved her and that she’d set me free

But it’s not to be If I can’t have her

Let the world be done with me