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Artist: The Last Five Years: The Musical
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If I Didn't Believe In You
If I Didn't Believe In You lyrics by The Last Five Years: The Musical. There are people And they are publishing my book And there's a party that they are...
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If I Didn't Believe In You
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There are people
And they are publishing my book
And there's a party that they are throwing
And while you've made it very clear that you're not going
I will be going
And that's done!
But what's it really about?
Is it really about a party, Cathy?
Can we please for a minute
Stop blaming and say what you feel?
Is it just that you're disappointed
To be going again for Ohio?
Did you think this would all be much easier
Than it's turned out to be?
Well, then talk to me, Cathy
Talk to me
If I didn't believe in you
We'd never have gotten this far
If I didn't believe in you
And all of the ten thousand women you are
If I didn't think you could do
Anything you ever wanted to
If I wasn't certain that you'd come through somehow
The fact of the matter is, Cathy
I wouldn't be standing here now
If I didn't believe in you
We wouldn't be having this fight
If I didn't believe in you
I'd walk out the door and say: Cathy, you're right
But I never could let that go
Knowing the things about you I know
Things, when I met you four years ago
I knew
It never took much convincing
To make me believe in you
Don't we get to be happy, Cathy?
At some point down the line, don't we get to relax?
Without some new tsuris
To push me yet further from you?
And if I'm cheering on your side, Cathy
Why can't you support mine? Why do I have to feel
I committed some felony
Doing what I always swore I would do?
I don't want you to hurt, hey, hey
I don't want you to sink
But you know what I think?
I think you'll be fine
Just hang on and you'll see
But don't make me wait till you do
To be happy with you
Will you listen to me?
No one can give you courage!
No one can thicken your skin!
I will not fail so you can be comfortable, Cathy
I will not lose because you can't win
If I didn't believe in you
And, and here's where the travelogue ends
If I didn't believe in you
I couldn't have stood before all of our friends
And said: This is the life I choose
This is the thing I can't bear to lose
Trip us or trap us, but we refuse to fall
That's what I thought we agreed on, Cathy
If I hadn't believed in you
I wouldn't have loved you at all
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