W hy can’t she see?
Why can’t she be
The one who will love me?

Where can I start?
I give from the heart
Just so she will love me.

She makes me so angry
She makes me so mad
She makes me so helpless
She makes me so sad.

I fall at her feet
I’m never complete
When I am without her.

I made her my wife
I gave her my life.
What is it about her?

The woman’s so cruel
She’s made me her fool.
She just strings me along.

Why can’t I just go?
Stand up to her so
I can start to feel strong?

She makes me so angry
She makes me so mad
She makes me so helpless
She makes me so sad.

It’s like I’m in chains
And nothing remains
Of the self-certain man I once was

I stay here and wait
For the crumbs from her plate
Just a shadow of who I once was.

Dallas fell

Philip Carey

Philip – the sensitive, club-footed artist in Of Human Bondage – craves love from the woman he wants as his wife and gives to her relentlessly, vainly hoping for a return.