Lyrics Michael McDonald

Michael McDonald

If You Wanted to Hurt Me

La la la la la la

Hey now

Mmm

I've been waiting for you all my life

Only to hear you tell me that you can't be mine

Oh, we both lose everything we've had

Make it sound to me that, that you're crucified

Now my fleeting joy grows so dim

As you turn away and run to him

Makes me wonder what you mean when you say his name

If you want the truth

That you must break my heart for my own good

Makes me wonder how you'd treat me, baby

If you wanted to hurt me, no, baby

If you really wanted to hurt me, yeah

No matter how I try, I may never find

A single ray of hope in all your lies

So I live in fear, I shed a doubt

It's just another heartache and there's no way out

And so this hole grows so deep

As you turn away and run to him

So once more, tell me how you're thinking that you must be cruel to be kind

But are your good intentions with me in mind?

Makes me wonder how you'd treat me, baby

If you wanted to hurt me, no, babe

If you really wanted to hurt me

No, babe

No, baby

If you really wanted to hurt me

Yeah, yeah

So you say you'd stay if you could

But you must break my heart for my own good

Makes me wonder how you'd treat me, baby

If you wanted to hurt me, no, babe

If you really wanted to hurt me, you're doing just fine

Are your good intentions with me in mind?

Makes me wonder how you'd treat me, baby

If you really wanted to hurt me, yeah, baby

If you wanted to hurt me, I know you would

Yeah, yeah, your love, baby

No, no

If you really wanted to hurt me

No, no, no

Hey now, baby, don't you do it

Oh, darling

(Don't do it) Don't do it

(Don't do it) Don't do it

(Don't do it)

No, babe (Oh, baby)

Don't do it (Don't do it)

(Don't do it)

No, no

(Don't do it)

Baby, don't you do it (Don't do it)

Baby, don't do it

(Don't do it, no)

(Don't do it)

No, no

(Don't do it)

(Don't do it, yeah)

(Don't do it)

If I don't have you, baby

(Don't do it)

By my side

No, baby

(Don't do it)

Makes me wonder how you'd treat me, baby

If you really wanted to hurt me

No, baby

(Don't do it)

(Don't do it)

(Don't do it)