FALLING OUT OF LOVE WITH ME

Writer Dolly Parton

Copyright 1976



The hardest thing I've ever done or that I'll ever do

Was to just walk off and leave you but I knew I had to leave you

Cause I couldn't stay and watch you falling out of love with me

The worst pain that I've ever known or that I'll ever know

Was to see your love a dying and to have to watch it dying

And I couldn't stand to watch you falling out of love with me

It's hurtin' now but still it's better I left while love was still alive

It was dying and I'd rather I didn't have to watch it die

The deepest hurt I've ever felt or that I'll ever feel

Was to know that I was losing and I tried but I kept losing

And I couldn't stay to watch you falling out of love with me

The loneliest I've ever been or that I'll ever be

Is now that I'm without you and I feel so lost without you

But I couldn't stay and watch you falling out of love with me

I'm crying now but still it's better I left while love was still alive

But it was dying and I'd rather I didn't have to watch it die