Last Letter Lyrics - Eddy Arnold

Why do you treat me as if I were only a friend 

What have I done that makes you so different and cold 

Sometimes I wonder if you'll be contented again 

Will you be happy when you are withered and old 

I cannot offer you diamonds and mansions so fine 

I cannot offer you clothes that your young body craves 

But if you'll say that you long to forever be mine 

Think of the heartaches the tears and the sorrow you'll save 

When you were lonely and tired of another one's gold 

When you were weary remember this letter my own 

Don't try to answer though I've suffered anguish untold 

If you don't love me I wish you would leave me alone 

While I am writing this letter I think of the past 

And of the promises that you are broking so free 

But to this old world I will soon say my farewell at last 

I will be gone when you read this last letter from me