If I Didn't Believe in You

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, 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 to 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 that 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 would 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've 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 'til 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 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