I Hope I Don't Fall In Love With You

Tom Waits

Intro: Well, I hope that I don't fall in love with you. Falling in love just makes me blue. Well the music plays and you display your heart for me to see. I had a beer and now I hear you calling out for me, And I hope that I don't fall in love with you. Now, the room is crowded, people’s everywhere And I wonder, should I offer you a chair? Well, if you sit down with this old clown, I’ll take that frown and break it. Before the evening's gone away I think that we could make it, And I hope that I don't fall in love with you. Now, the night does funny things inside a man. These old tomcat feelings you don't understand. I turn around and look at you, you light a cigarette I wish I had the guts to bum one, but we've never met, And I hope that I don't fall in love with you. I can see that you are lonesome just like me, and it being late, you'd like some company. Well, I turn around to look at you and you look back at me. The guy you're with, he’s up and split, the chair next to you’s free, And I hope that you don't fall in love with me. And I hope that I don't fall in love with you. Now it's closing time, the music's fading out Last call for drinks I'll have another stout. I turn around to look at you—you're nowhere to be found. I search the place for your lost face—Guess I'll have another round. And I think that I just fell in love with you.

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