I don't care if you really care

I always thought it was fortunate that Romeo and Juliet died when they did. Love is always sweetest in the beginning, where you'll do anything, say anything, and actually believe that you mean it. And such intensity is so seldom sustainable.

You can never beat a relationship that ends prematurely, be it a 2-month whirlwind of excitement and seemed commitment, or a night of pure adrenaline. Those memories linger the longest, good and bad. A longish relationship that fades and degenerates leaves nothing to look back to, the good times are sporadically spread out and unremarkable, and the bad times are amplified by reiteration. At least that's what I've been led to believe.

I guess we believe because we want to believe; it's too difficult to find out if it's true. Impossible even, at times, or maybe just too painful.

Dear, I fear we're facing a problem
You love me no longer, I know
And maybe there is nothing that I can do
To make you do

Mama tells me I shouldn't bother
That I ought just stick to another man
A man that surely deserves me
But I think you do

So I cry, and I pray and I beg

Love me love me
Say that you love me
Fool me fool me
Go on and fool me
Love me love me
Pretend that you love me
Leave me leave me
Just say that you need me

So I cried, and I begged for you to
Love me love me
Say that you love me
Leave me leave me
Just say that you need me
I can't care about anything but you

Lately I have desperately pondered
Spent my nights awake and I wonder
What I could have done in another way
To make you stay

Reason will not pledge a solution
I will end up lost in confusion
I don't care if you really care
As long as you don't go



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