Betrayal

Betrayal 

If you leave, I'll let you go

Colder than the falling snow

Faster than the driving rain

Please go back the way you came

If you go, I'll help you leave

As the woodman's axe will cleave 

As the widow's tear will fall

Please do not come back at all

If you leave, I'll wave farewell

Quietly, and time will tell

I'll turn away and shut the door

Please do not come back for more

Farewell, when I know you're gone

Careless as a drunken song

Faithless as a sister's kiss

Please do not come back to this

Once you're gone I'll know the truth

Love was only mine in youth

I am not too blind to see

No one stays who wants to leave.