You know it hurts me when you lie

Sometimes it even makes me cry

because I’m so in love with you

If you don’t believe what I have said

take a look, my eyes are red

because I’m so in love with you

But all those sleepless nights in bed

when you’ve been out somewhere instead

I wonder if you care

and cannot bear the proof

It hurts too much to face the truth

A lawyer with a case to prove

would sift the evidence then move

It’s the only thing to do

So why then can’t I face the facts?

Sift this evidence that backs

I am so in love with you?

But all the nights when you have said

you must be somewhere else instead

I wonder where you go

but daren’t expose the proof

It hurts too much to face the truth

You are the only one, the only one

You know it hurts me when you lie

Sometimes it even makes me cry

because I’m so in love with you

If you don’t believe what I have said

take a look, my eyes are red

because I’m so in love with you

But all the nights you don’t show up

I know it’s time I should grow up

I ask you if you care

You stand and stare aloof

It hurts too much to face the truth

1984. Unrequited love. The line ‘You are the only one’ was remembered from the film Midnight Cowboy, in which there’s a flashback sequence of the hustler, Joe, making love to his girlfriend, who sighs: ‘You’re the only one, Joe. The only one.’ For some reason this line stuck with me. In the late nineties we even wrote a song called ‘The only one’.