I know why you don’t walk my way, I know,
Even though you keep looking over your shoulder
You want to love a man the way it should be
But you’ll wait even though you’re getting older

There’s something you carry inside you
It’s not anything a man can really touch
You thought of saving it for a special person
Now you’re wondering if it means very much

I don’t know why they made you that way
A woman knows how to love;
even a world that won’t
You’re tired of crying over a man
That something inside wants to believe
You do too even though you think you don’t

I don’t blame you for knowing how the world works
You were born to be disappointed more than the other half
You can’t make someone remember who forgets so easily
The only thing for you is to dry your eyes and try to laugh

I thought about what it would be like to grow old with you
But I don’t know if there’s enough time for me to grow up
You’re gonna have to live with what you already know
I can’t fill your heart, I just hope you’ll take half a cup

I don’t know why they made me that way
A man doesn’t know how to love;
that’s why the world won’t
I’m tired of making a woman cry
That something inside wants to believe
I do too even though you think you don’t