Story Behind The Song

real life

Song Description

The husband refuses to believe that things will end this way, with lots of good memories left behind, and a lot of love still there. He asks his wife not to go, and tells her that a new man won't erase the good things they have had...He admits his own fa

Lyrics

Now the door is open wide and you?re a standin?

with an indecisive look upon your face,

and a suitcase filled with mixed reviews of mem?ries,

that another man and time cannot erase.



You have told me your heart?s longin? for another,

yet your tears betray you love me, deep inside.

Heaven knows I?ve got my little imperfections,

but there ain?t no doubt, you know how hard I?ve tried.





Chorus: So don?t be cleavin? me by leavin? me, tearing up my eyes,

and don?t be grievin? me, deceivin? me with all those silly lies.

Because, no matter what you say, I know that things can?t end this way.

Please don?t be leavin?, just believe in me.



I?m a-thinkin? of the time when I first met you,

in your Wrangler jeans and Tony Lama boots--

just a fragile flower clingin? to a barstool,

while you fended off bunch of drunken brutes...



how that crass display of rowdy indiscretion,

was forgotten as we spoke our gentle words,

and the pedal steel transformed into a sonnet,

as the snare drum sang the serenade of birds.



Chorus: So don?t be cleavin? me by leavin? me, tearing up my eyes,

and don?t be grievin? me, deceivin? me with all those silly lies.

Because, no matter what you say, I know that things can?t end this way.

Please don?t be leavin?, just believe in me.




Well I?ve been around the block an? I can tell you,

that, by leavin?, you can?t bury love that?s true.

Like the blossoms on the apple trees, each springtime,

in your daydreams, I?ll be coming back to you.



Please forgive the little blunders that have pained you.

I can only pledge to do my very best.

Try to focus on the good; forget the rough times,

and you?ll find enduring love will do the rest.



Chorus: So don?t be cleavin? me by leavin? me, tearing up my eyes,

and don?t be grievin? me, deceivin? me with all those silly lies.

Because, no matter what you say, I know that things can?t end this way.

Please don?t be leavin?, just believe in me.