I've tried so hard my dear to show
That you're my every dream
Yet you're afraid each thing I do

Is just some evil scheme

A memory from your lonesome past

Keeps us so far apart
Why can't I free your doubtful mind
And melt your cold cold heart


Another love before my time
Made your heart sad an' blue

And so my heart is paying now
For things I didn't do


In anger unkind words are said
That make the teardrops start
Why can't I free your doubtful mind

And melt your cold cold heart

There was a time when I believed

That you belonged to me
But now I know your heart is shackled
To a memory


The more I learn to care for you
The more we drift apart

Why can't I free your doubtful mind
And melt your cold cold heart