How many times have I come to you?
How many times have you taken me in?
How have you never quite realized
That this will be nothing more than what it's been?
Why is it that I return to the scene of the crime
Though there's nothing I need?
Between the moments that linger before us
Haven't you wondered why I always leave?
Let me be who I am
Let me leave while I can
You know love don't find this sort of man
So just let me leave while I can
How many times have I come to you
Beaten and broken and under attack?
How can you look in my eyes and my heart
And not see that there's something I lack?
Why is it that I'm as bad as I am
But I know that you'll never believe?
Why do you still love me
When all I have done is to lie and deceive?
Let me be who I am
Let me leave while I can
You know love don't find this sort of man
So just let me leave while I
Can't give you what you need
And I'm so tired that I can't breathe
And I don't know if you can see
But my ship is goin' down
And I tried my best to be a man
So I'll set you free while I still can
'Cause I can't seem to change who I am
So just let me be who I am
Oh, oh, let me leave while I can
You know love don't find this sort of man
So just let me leave while I can
Just let me leave while I can
Let me leave, let me leave