Why did you spend your good fortune on me
Why did you spend your good fortune on me
Did you leave me to suffer
Just to shuffle and breathe
Did you pick through the letters
And just settle on me
Am I just a plaything
I just a plaything
For the wind like a leaf
Wind like a leaf
Or did you leave me exactly
Leave me exactly
Where I need to be
I need to be
Tell me why did you spend your good fortune on me
Why did you spend your good fortune on me
I can tell you of sorrow
tell you of sorrow
Of losing, of pain
losing, of pain
I can cry through the levee
cry through the levee
It would wash you away
wash you away
I could give you one reason
give you a reason
Two reasons or three
reason or three
I can tell you 'bout heartache
tell you 'bout heartache
No leanness and grieve
No leanness have greed
So why did you spend your good fortune on me
Oh, why did you spend your good fortune on me
I can tell you a story
Tell it simple and plain
Tell you life is a candle
It figures that I'm a flame
So if I give you one reason
give you a reason
For me to say what I'm sayin'
say what I'm saying
I'll say that you are the answer
you are the answer
To my question every day
every day
Saying why did you spend your good fortune on me
Tell me why did you spend your good fortune on me
Why did you spend your good fortune on me
Oh, why did you spend your good fortune on me
On me, on why
On me, why ooh why