(Dolly Parton)

The hardest thing I've done or that I'll ever do

Was to just walk off and leave you

But I knew I had to leave you

'Cause I couldn't stay and watch you

Falling out of love with me

The worst pain that I've ever known

Or that I'll ever know

Was to see your love-a-dying

And to have to watch it dying

And I couldn't stand to watch you

Falling out of love with me

I'm hurting now, but still it's better

I left while love was still alive

It was dying and I'd rather

I didn't have to watch it die

The loneliest I've ever been

Or that I'll ever be

Now that I'm without you

But I couldn't stand to watch you

Falling out of love with me

I'm crying now, but still it's better

I left while love was still alive

It was dying and I'd rather

I didn't have to watch it die