I've tried so hard, my dear, to show
That you're my every dream.
Yet you're afraid each thing I do
Is just some evil scheme.
A memory from your lonesome past
Keeps us so far apart.
Why can't I free your doubtful mind
And melt your cold cold heart?
Another love before my time
Made your heart sad an' blue.
And so my heart is paying now
For things I didn't do.
In anger unkind words are said
That make the teardrops start.
Why can't I free your doubtful mind
And melt your cold cold heart?
There was a time when I believed
That you belonged to me.
But now I know your heart is shackled
To a memory...
The more I learn to care for you,
The more we drift apart...
Why can't I free your doubtful mind
And melt your cold cold heart...