If I Know You Lyrics - Gilbert Osullivan

I should have known from the start this would happen 

From the moment we went anywhere 

If other women so much as looked at me 

You'd be Screaming blue murder. I swear 

And yet you say that my leaving doesn't hurt you in the least 

But even if that's true 

You'll do all in your power to destroy me 

If I know you 

You never once in the time spent together 

Even loved me with half of your heart 

Okay you gave me the world and I took it 

But I was young then and eager to start 

And yet despite you declaring. you understand the way I feel 

Now that we are through 

You'll do all in your power to destroy me 

If I know you 

What on earth possesses children to abandon fairy tales 

Are we simply getting old 

Or as parents have we just failed 

I never stopped wanting you for a second 

In all the time I was with you I swear 

But I will not spend my life with a woman 

Who thinks that love is a state of affairs 

And yet you say you're not bitter, we had one too many years 

But even if that's true 

You'll do all in your power to destroy me 

If I know you 

What on earth possesses people 

To destroy each others homes 

Are we really all as bad 

As the TV cameras have Shown 

You say how much you respect what I'm doing 

You say how high you regard my ideas 

And yet for years as I stood in the background 

You never once let me up off my knees