Honey if you'd shown just a little affection
Even knowing how you're temporarily kind
I still would have turned right back in your direction
Like a puppy, you know, I'd be willingly blind
We must have been good, at least for awhile
But those times that were good, I can barely recall
There must have been times when you'd look at me and smile
But now when you look, you don't see me at all
Each time I stop to think things over
You show your cardboard self, leaving me blue
And I want to thank you from the bottom of a very lonely heart
For reminding me of why I'm leaving you
'Cause when you ain't got it
Well that's when you want it
I'm missin' the kissin'
I'm lackin' the lovin'
I'm tremblin' for touch
My mind is so hoarse from forcing my heart to admit
You don't care a bit about us
Now I'm feeling so empty and oh, so alone
Not knowing just how or from where I should start
But you know I've been lonely for years right here in our home
And I want to recover what's left of my heart
Each time I stop to think things over
You show your cardboard self, leaving me blue
And I want to thank you from the bottom of a very lonely heart
For reminding me of why I'm leaving you
Yeah, I want to thank you from the bottom of my very lonely heart
For reminding me just why I'm leaving you
