We all lead such elaborate lives

 Wild ambitions in our sights

 How an affair of the heart survives

 Days apart and hurried nights

 

 Seems quite unbelievable to me

 I don't want to live like that

 Seems quite unbelievable to me

 I don't want to love like that

 I just want our time to be slower and gentler, wiser, free

 

 

 We all live in extravagant times

 Playing games we can't all win

 Unintended emotional crimes

 Take some out, take others in

 

 

 I'm so tired of all we're going through

 I don't want to live like that

 I'm so tired of all we're going through

 I don't want to love like that

 I just want to be with you now and forever, peaceful, true

 

 

 I wish I had the courage

 To tell you face to face

 But I could wait forever

 For the perfect time and place

 

 

 We all live such elaborate lives

 We don't know whose words are true

 Strangers, lovers, husbands, wives

 Hard to know whose loving who

 

 

 Too many choices tear us apart

 I don't want to live like that

 Too many choices tear us apart

 I don't want to love like that

 I just want to touch your heart, may this confession be the start