Please don't say those words
As when you do my heart goes aflutter
And my stomach clenches in an inexplicable fear

I can't return your affection
It pains me to hurt you this way with rejection
But what you require from me could and might break me

You hold me close; so close
That the years of affection I never got
Seem to fade and I feel safe. I feel alive and happy.

But when you say those words
I am scared.

Those words were exchanged
By my mother and father
And it hurt them both

The betrayed each other and apologized
Then exchanged those words, but neither believed
And when they could no longer hurt each other, they hurt me

My brother, so oblivious, so naive
Never realised the extent of love gone wrong
Until, in that house, both my mother and myself were almost killed

Please don't say those words
They aren't a promise you can keep
They aren't a promise you will keep

I know you may think my fear is ridiculous
But first hand have I experienced the cruelty of that word
And that word has dragged me to the edge of sanity and pushed me off

Don't say those words
Don't make me commit
We can be together without it

Don't say those words
Because when you do
I will run.