"if It Doesn't Come Naturally Lyrics - Al Stewart

Nothing that's forced can ever be right 

If it doesn't come naturally, leave it 

That's what she said as she turned out the light 

And we bent our backs as slaves of the night 

She lowered her guard and showed me the scars 

She got from trying to fight 

Saying oh, you'd better believe it 

Well I'm up to my neck in the crumbling wreckage 

Of all that I wanted from life 

When I looked for respect all I got was neglect 

Though I swallowed the line as a sign of the times 

But dealing a jack from the back of the pack 

They said-You lose again 

Oh, I said, who needs it? 

Well don't get me wrong now I tried to get on 

With the jokers that got in my way 

And I put on a smile and I tried all the while to be straight 

But they just wanted more all the time and I'm sure 

That you know what I mean when I say 

That I'm sick of the touch and there's only so much you can take. 

Well nothing that's real is ever for free 

And you just have to pay for it sometime 

She said it before, she said it to me 

I suppose she believed there was nothing to see 

But the same old four imaginary walls 

She built for living inside 

I said oh, you just can't mean it 

Well there was never a doubt that she had to get out 

She was just looking around for a way 

In the pit of the night there was nowhere to hide any more 

She was out on a limb, she was reaching for things 

That she wanted, but just couldn't say 

And she had to be sure that she wouldn't get caught like before. 

Well nothing that's forced can ever be right 

If it doesn't come naturally, leave it 

That's what she said as she turned out the light 

And she may have been wrong, and she may have been right 

But I woke with the frost, and noticed she'd lost 

The veil that covered her eyes 

I said oh, you can leave it