I'D RATHER KEEP MY DISTANCE (AND YOUR MEMORY)
(Linda Hargrove / Pete Drake)


Linda Hargrove - 1977





Don't look at me with those sad eyes
I can see what you're thinkin' that you'd like to do
But our time for love now is over
You don't belong to me and I don't belong to you

So I'd rather keep my distance and your mem'ry
I couldn't bear to love that way again
Yes, I'd rather keep my distance and your memory, ooh-ooh
Baby, don't you make me fall again

Pictures of the past are often pleasant
Dreams of tomorrow warm as wine
Here and now the sad true revelation
Your world is your world and my world is mine

I'd rather keep my distance and your mem'ry
I couldn't bear to love that way again
Yes, I'd rather keep my distance and your memory, ooh-ooh
Baby, don't you make me fall again

Yes, I'd rather keep my distance and your memory, ooh-ooh
Baby, don't you make me fall again






(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - December 2013)