When I fell in love with you
 For you told me you always would play square
 Then I learned you had a home
 That your wife had not gone wrong
 And our love was just a backstreet affair

 Was too late to say no
 When I found you'd fooled me so
 For as time passed on I'd learned too much to care
 Though I knew I must atone
 But my will was not my own
 I'm paying for that backstreet affair

 You didn't count the cost
 You gambled and I lost
 Now I must pay with hours of deep despair
 You still can live your life
 With a true, forgiving wife
 But I can't live down our backstreet affair

 The love I gave so free
 Is left to torture me
 Though I know it's hopeless and it isn't fair
 But, still I must go on
 While the gossips spread are wrong
 I'm paying for that backstreet affair