Lyrics We Do Not Belong Together - Stephen Sondheim, Aaron Ramey

We Do Not Belong Together

Yes, George, run to your work.\nHide behind your painting.\nI have come to tell you I am leaving because I thought you might\ncare to know-foolish of me, because you care about nothing-\nI care about many things-\nThings-not people.\nPeople, too. I cannot divide my feelings up as neatly as you,\nand I am not hiding behind my canvas-I am living in it.\nWhat you care for is yourself.\nI care for this painting. You will be in this painting.\nI am something you can use.\nI had thought you understood.\nIt’s because I understand that I left,\nThat I am leaving.\nThen there’s nothing I can say,\nIs there?\nYes. George, there is:\nYou could tell me not to go.\nSay it to me.\nTell me not to go.\nTall me that you’re hurt,\nTell me you’re relieved,\nTell me that you’re bored-\nAnything, but don’t assume I know.\nTell me what you feel!\nWhat I feel?\nYou know exactly how I feel.\nWhy do you insist\nYou must hear the words,\nWhen you know I cannot give you words?\nNot the ones you need.\nThere’s nothing to say.\nI cannot be what you want.\nWhat do you want, George?\nI needed you and you left.\nThere was no room for me-\nYou will not accept who I am.\nI am what I do-\nWhich you knew,\nWhich you always knew,\nWhich I thought you were a part of!\nNo,\nYou are complete, George,\nYou are your own.\nWe do not belong together.\nYou are complete, George,\nYou all alone.\nI am unfinished,\nI am diminished\nWith or without you.\nWe do not belong together,\nAnd we should have belonged together.\nWhat made it so right together\nIs what made it all wrong.\nNo one is you, George.\nThere you agree,\nBut others will do, George.\nNo one is you and\nNo one can be,\nBut no one is me, George,\nNo one is me.\nWe do not belong together.\nAnd we’ll never belong!\nYou have a mission,\nA mission to see.\nNow I have one too, George.\nAnd we should have belonged together.\nI have to move on.