If You Decide to Leave Me

I composed the below poem in the late 1970's and set it to music in the early 1980's.  I wrote it as a consequence of pondering the mess I had made of a marriage.  I imagine it echos the sentiments of many a man and more than a few women who could have done better in their relationships with one another.


I have a happy marriage today, thanks to cleaning up my act AND choosing the right mate.  I encourage all men and women to 

• devote themselves to their lives' passions,  
• choose their mates wisely, 
• show consummate love, patience, tolerance, and loyalty to their mates, and
• look daily for new ways to  "do good" to one another without shirking the old ways.

I'll post the actual song here after I make a video of it.  If you can't wait, download the pdf with embedded music here.  You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader 10 to load it.






If You Decide to Leave Me
Words and Music Copyright © 1980-2011 by Bob Hurt. All rights reserved.

Honey I know you’re sick and tired
Of seeing me get fired
And watching unpaid bills stack up too high.
I know I don’t work much
And I’ve lost my loving touch
And I stay out late and never come home on time.


The situation makes you blue
And its driving me crazy too -
If you decide to leave me, can I come along with you?


Maybe I’m not much of a man
But I try as hard as I can,
So I know I’m not the one upsetting you –
It’s the house a mess all day
And all the trash the neighbors say,
And I’m ready to go myself, to tell the truth.


The situation makes you blue
And its driving me crazy too -
If you decide to leave me, can I come along with you?


Out on the job the other day
I heard two men say
That you and I were ripe for splitting up.
They said you were looking around
For a place on the other side of town
To get away from all the stuff that’s driving you nuts.


The situation makes you blue
And its driving me crazy too -
If you decide to leave me (think about it Honey),
If you’re going to leave me (don’t worry about the money),
If you decide to leave me, can I come along with you?

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