Desafinado

When I try to sing you say I'm off key

Why can't you see how much this hurts me?

With your perfect beauty and your perfect pitch

You're a perfect terror when I come around

Must you always put me down?

If you say my singing is off key, my love

You will hurt my feelings, don't you see, my love?

I wish I had an ear like yours, a voice that would behave

All I have is feeling and a voice God gave

You insist my music goes against the rules

Yes, but rules were never made for love-sick fools

I wrote this little song for you but you don't care

It's a crooked song, oh, but all my love is there

The thing that you would see if you would play your part

Is even if I'm out of tune I have a gentle heart

I took your picture with my trusty Rolleiflex

And now all I have developed is a complex

Possibly in vain I hope you'll weaken, oh, my love

And forget those rigid rules that undermine my dream of

A life of love and music with someone who'll understand

That even though I may be out of tune

When I attempt to say how much I love you

All that matters is the message that I bring

Which is, my dear one, I love you

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