I could have stood to watch you walk away
   And put it down to your uncertain ways
   Or somehow babe you've had a change of heart
   Maybe wanna make a brand new start
   Crazy though what I say may seem
   I could have learned to mend these broken dreams
   You could have gently pushed I would have fell
   I could have played the graceful one so well
  
   What's that you say
   You were gonna leave me anyway
   Any fool can see
   See what you've done to me
   And your love turns to lies
  
   The actor played the part of sweet desire
   And tiptoed out upon the highest wire
   The truth to tell upon a rope too thin
   And so the fall of treachery begins
   But oh to see the starlets smiling face
   So eagerly awaits to take the place
   I tried to fall in clean and graceful way
   You could have said I would have given way
  
   And I see him smile the way that I smile
   And I hear him laugh the way that I did
   But I hear him screaming
   And I hear him crying
   And I see him falling when