Call me a fool call me a hopeless mess
call me shackled to my loneliness
but I've been through the psychology
and it just don't change the way I feel
So honey if I don't come back this time
please know that it is no one's fault but mine
I just can't see my way clear to riding
a sinking ship, but more than this
honey I just want to be alone, I just want to be alone
No I'm not in love with anyone
and my fury's all been spent and done
so there's nothing you could do or say
that would make me change my mind and stay
So honey if I don't come back at all
please don't ask me why, please don't come calling
cuz I've got one foot out the door
and the other on the gas pedal begging for more
saying I just want to be alone, I just want to be alone
If I could, I'd search this whole wide world
and I'd bring you back the perfect girl
I'd have her woo you til your heart stood still
I'd have her love you like I never will
So if this time I don't return
please know that there's no lesson to be learned
there's just an aching in a heart that's slain
and all that I can hear it saying
is "I just want to be alone, I just want to be alone"