[Verse 1]

Why is it you must be

So very cruel to me

In order to be kind?

Why when I hold you close

Do you insist your toes

Are being stood on by mine?

Why when I kiss your lips

Do you astound me

Saying that you won't put

Your arms around me?

No one should be that cold

What ever I've done

Surely I've a right to know

Oh why, oh why, oh why?

[Verse 2]

Why is it ev'ry time

We visit friends of mine

You never want to go why?

Why when I'm feeling good

You act as if I should

Be at an all time low?

Why after all these years

We've been together

Must you behave as if we'd hardly ever

Spoken let alone met?

It seems that you're happy as long as I'm upset

Oh why, oh why, oh why?

[Bridge]

Is it that you don't love me? Oh why?

Have you just had enough of me

Oh why do I always have to cry

Myself to sleep seven days a week?

[Verse 3]

Why in the name of God

Are you so angry?

Could it be that you can

No longer stand me?

Tell me and I will go

You're breaking my heart

Just in case you didn't know

Oh why, oh why, oh why?

[Outro]

Oh why, oh why, oh why?