WE HAVE TO START SOMEWHERE Did you ever love me? Did you ever care? Five more minutes of me Is five more in despair Did you ever need me When I wasn't there? It isn't thoughtful of me To be so unfair Let me explain cause we've never met You haven't had the chance to break my heart just yet You'll have to excuse my attitude I'm really not so pessimistic or so rude Did you ever love me? Did you ever care? I know you've never met me but we have to start somewhere Things are really changing Nothing seems the same The flowers I'm arranging Flowers in your name The rivers have stopped raging The current is now tame I'm really not upstaging you Or placing blame Let me explain cause we've never met You haven't had the chance to break my heart just yet You'll have to excuse my attitude I'm really not so pessimistic or so rude But did you ever love me? Did you ever care? I know you've never met me but we have to start somewhere So much for tomorrow So much for my dreams So much of my sorrow Is in your pleasant schemes And in the straight and narrow The sunshine never beams It really can get harrowing Or so it seems Let me explain cause we've never met You haven't had the chance to break my heart just yet You'll have to excuse my attitude I'm really not so pessimistic or so rude Did you ever love me? Did you ever care? I know you've never met me but we have to start somewhere I know you've never met me I'm sure you won't forget me You really shouldn't let me But we had to start somewhere