Don't Make Me Leave

Dan Bern

I would like to live forever

With you and me as all the people

All the roles would be defined

Here's the church, here's the steeple

But when I start to walk away

I panic when I speak



Don't make me leave

Oh, don't make me leave this place



Can't there be a trap door

When I finally have to go

I could just drop to the earth Through a hole in the floor

The further that I walk away

Brings more pain and fear



Don't make me leave

Oh, don't make me leave this place



Without you maybe I'd be dead

Without you maybe I'd have bled

All of the life out of me

So I guess I gotta figure out

How to break this chain

People can chop you up

'Til nothing remains

It's not that I'm unwilling

To strike out on my own



Don't make me leave

Oh, don't make me leave this place