-- Ifs & buts --

Ifs and buts, sighs and regrets
Are common to the fairer sex
Who divide their lives into separate parts
So as best to protect their hearts

The male of the species not being so smart
Employs no such strategy, displaying little art
Putting passion top of his all time list
Getting the rest of life in an awful twist

So sympathise with the likes of me
Perpetually living in purgatory
Loving a girl to whom it seldom occurs
Should be mine as much as I am hers