Al Stewart - If It Doesn't Come Naturally, Leave It lyrics

Nothing that's forced can ever be right If it doesn't come naturally leave it That's what she said as she turned out the light And we bent our backs as slaves of the night Then she lowered her guard and showed me the scars She got from trying to fight Saying, oh, you'd better believe it I'm up to my neck in the crumbling wreckage Of all that I wanted from life When I looked for respect all I got was neglect Though I swallowed the line as a sign of the times But dealing a jack from the back of the pack They said "You lose again" Oh, I said, who needs it Don't get me wrong now, I tried to get on With the jokers that got in my way And I put on a smile and I tried all the while to be straight But they just wanted more all the time and I'm sure That you know what I mean when I say That I'm sick of the touch and there's only so much you can take Nothing that's real is ever for free And you just have to pay for it sometime She said it before she said it to me I suppose she believed there was nothing to see But the same old four imaginary walls She built for living inside I said, oh, you just can't mean it There was never a doubt that she had to get out She was just looking around for a way In the pit of the night there was nowhere to hide any more She was out on a limb, she was reaching for things That she wanted but just couldn't say And she had to be sure that she wouldn't get caught like before Nothing that's forced can ever be right If it doesn't come naturally leave it That's what she said as she turned out the light And she may have been wrong and she may have been right But I woke with the frost and noticed she'd lost The veil that covered her eyes I said, oh, you can leave it