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

What have I done that's made you so different and cold

Sometimes I wonder if you'll be contented again

Or will you be happy when you are withered and old

I cannot offer you diamonds and mansions so fine

And I cannot offer you clothes that your young body craves

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

Just take off the heartaches the tears and this sorrow you'll save

When you are weary and tired of another man's gold

And when you get lonely remember this letter my own

But don't try to answer though I've suffered anguish untold

If you don't love me then why don't you leave me alone

As I am writing this letter I think of the past

And of the promises that you are breaking so free

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

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