Too long trying to resist it You've just gone and missed it It's escaped your world Can you see that I am needing And begging for so much more Than you could ever give And I don't want you to adore me Don't want you to ignore me When it pleases you

You thrill me, you delight me You please me, you excite me You're something I'd been pleading for I love you, I adore you I lay my life before you I'll have you want me more and more And finally it seems my lonely days are through I've been waiting for

I, I who have nothing I, I who have no one Adore you and want you so I'm just a no one with nothing to give you but, oh He, he buys you diamonds Bright, sparkling diamonds But, believe me, dear, when I say That he can give you the world but he'll never