Oh Scarlett (Lyrics)

Refrain:

Scarlett oh scarlett
You've led me on too long
I don't dare say I don't care so
I'll just sing my song


(repeat twice in later verses)

The day that I first laid my eyes on
Your convincing smile
My heart it walked right out my chest
and stayed with yours a while
I didn't say a paragraph
before you looked at me
My heart it stopped but before long
you had looked away

He was handsome
He was just a little shorter, he was younger he was miserable
and just a little poorer but you
loved him, you loved this man to shame
You looked at him, then back to me, and it was not the same.

REFRAIN

I asked my girl to marry me I asked her like a man
A diamond ring down on one knee she nodded, said "good plan"
I knew she loved me just enough to sign her life away
Oh scarlett, oh scarlett why'd you agree to stay

When he-- when he was all you wanted
why me-- why do you have to haunt me scarlett
we-- we could have had it made, but
I was yours and you were his and that was how it stayed

REFRAIN

I never knew how heartbreak felt untill I married you
Some part of me thought it would be like heart gorilla glue
It didn't mean like anything that he couldn't be yours too
Oh Scarlett he was Melanie's and she was his wife don't you see?
Oh Scarlett he was Melanie's and she just wasn't you.

I woke up every morning with a horror in my chest
When I say I woke up darling you never let me rest
Scarlett we were both trying, I know you tried your best
But you never tried to forget him so--- I forget the rest...

REFRAIN

It's a feeling like fire, fires that you can't escape
Or how you feel when you come home to yellow caution tape
Scarlett I put that fire out, I put my heart away----
It hurt too much to keep around; I'm filled to brim with gray

Full of ashes--
And then you came a knockin'-- got your senses
Knocked into you too late
I'd waited-- I'd waited for years oh scarlett
I just didn't care oh scarlett why'd you make me wait.
I just don't give a damn oh scarlett your love came too late.

Scarlett oh scarlett
You led me on too long
I don't dare say I don't care
I love you enough to write you a song

Scarlett oh scarlett
What you did was wrong, but
I can't say that I don't care
There's a little love somewhere
Scarlett treat me right this time
Heaven I'll meet you there
Scarlett treat me right this time
Heaven I'll meet you there.