If it’s only love why do I want to die?
Is it just to possess a desire to caress and pacify?
I sit by the phone I check my machine at a quarter to nine
Now it’s eight forty six and I’m off the rails, at the end of the line.

If it’s only love, if it’s only love
If it’s only love,
A single thought, I want to be your lover.
Lover beware,
What if this is our only love?
Lover, lover beware,
What if this is our only love?

She’s too good for me, I’m too down at heel,
To her I’m a fool
With her monogrammed fags, her elegant drags and Miss Sweet school.
I was born to build cars, hang out in bars and play folk guitar.
She was born yesterday, I feel her going away,
I’ve got to make her stay.

If it’s only love, if it’s only love
If it’s only love, a single thought I want to be her lover.
Lover beware
What if this is our only love?
Lover, lover beware,
What if this is our only love?

Do you think that I’m the one that you don’t want until he’s gone
And then you want him back by blue of noon?
You know that I’ll bomb without you
Can’t breathe when I’m without you?

What if you’re my one and only lover.
Lover beware
What if this is our only love?
Lover, lover beware
What if this is our only love?
Lover, lover beware
What if this is our only love?
Lover, lover beware
What if this is our only lonely love?
What if this is our only love?
What if this is our only lonely love?