When I said I love you

Whoever says 'I love you'?

That's just playing easy to get.

But when I said I love you

I just meant it, and that's as true

Now as when we met.

Careless talk

Fearless feelings

The element of surprise

Tell the truth

The way you see it

Careless talk costs lives

You’d heard it all before

Enough to know the score

They’re all the same underneath

I don’t know what you saw

Or why you ignored it,

Took a chance and believed

Careless talk…

All the lives you could have led

All the books that you'd have read

All the things you could have said

But never did

All the things you could have seen

All the things you could have been

If you hadn’t stayed with me

Careless talk costs lives

If you’d have told me ‘no’

I would have practised more

Learned to sing and maybe how to play

But if I could put together

Fancy words and jazzy chords

I’d just sing ‘I love you’ anyway

Careless talk…