sometimes you have to leave
there's a house on a corner
with a neatly mowed lawn
there's a couple who live there
but they don't get along

there's a little dark closet
there's a box on a shelf
and in there a picture
of somebody else

(chorus)
you fight those feelings
but they just won't go away, now will they?
you make your mind up
then you change it and you stay
sometimes you have to leave
to make the pain go away

there's an afternoon visitor
parks halfway round the block
maybe the neighbors wonder and you hope
that you don't get caught, or do you?

(chorus)