Paul Gordon - As Good As You lyrics

ROCHESTER Love! Love is like a virus we're infected with You're so naive Wouldn't it be wonderful If life was just as you perceive? Women are inhuman, worthless Hard and savage On the average Never to be trusted Completely maladjusted, it's true And if I'd not loved a few I might have been as good as you She was my flame, my gallic sylph I was her fool's delight She put me in her spell and turned my Rage to trust in just one night With appetites for pleasure We would search for buried treasure In the excess of temptation I thought it my salvation, it's true And if I had thought things through I might have been as good as you She found me handsome My opera dancer And like a fool I believed it was true I held the world inside my hands, a man Full in his prime When she left me for another Pierced my heart a second time "Nothing lasts forever," she said "Find the door yourself, dear, won't you? Think me still your flower I've treasured every hour, it's true And if I had loved you, too I might have been as good as you." I came upon her some time later The years had not been very kind She has this child, Adele Said she was mine, as well "Nothing lasts forever, Edward Take good care and, oh yes Won't you take our lovely daughter? For you see, dear, I don't want her But I'm still your flower I'll just bloom elsewhere Tell her my soul is in heaven, with God" Miss Eyre, I tell you this Because I want you to know That I, with some luck Without shame, without blame Or the curse of my name Might have been as good as you