Leave me for the jeweller of your heart-cut diamond
Leave me for the tailor of your dress
Leave me for the witness in the White Wave Chapel
Blame the one to bless
Custom won’t allow me to go back and ask the diners
Watching from the Endless Bar and Grill
Leave for the doorman in the sad black coat
outside the Grand Hotel
Anyone but him, and your unoriginal sin,
Would wear me paper thin
Any place but there, because it’s more than I can bear
Oh anyone but him
Tell me by the fountain in the old stone garden
Bite the hand that held you in the spray
End it all in summer when it first went wrong
Won’t you let me choose the day
Say it on the main street where the scene keeps moving
Say it where the words are swept away
Say it anywhere but in the Grand Hotel
Where I learned to love this way
Anyone but him, and your unoriginal sin,
Would wear me paper thin
Any place but there, because it’s more than I can bear
Oh anyone but him
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