We met out on open streets
When we had no place to go
I remember how my heart beat
When you said "I love you so"
Then little by little
We choked out all the life that out love could hold
No, no

It was like we held a noose
And baby without check
We pulled it a little tighter around our necks
Each one waiting for the other
Darling to say when
Now baby you can leave me tonight on the loose end

We didn't count tomorrows
We took what we had and baby we ran
There was no place for sorrow
Every place we went I held your hand
And when the night closed in
I was sure your kisses told me all I had to know
But oh no

It was like we held a noose
and baby without check
we pulled 'til it grew tighter around our necks
each one waiting for the other
darling to say when
oh baby you can leave me tonight on the loose end

Our love has fallen around us
Like we said it never would
We saw it happen to all the others
But to us it never would
Well how could something so bad, darling
Come from something that was so good
I don't know

But it was like we held a noose
And baby without check
we pulled 'til it grew tighter around our necks
each one waiting for the other
darling to say when
oh baby you can leave me tonight on the loose end

On a loose end