I WON'T SURVIVE

Everyone knows the classic song "I Will Survive"; it's a song about finding one's inner strength and moving on after a shattered relationship. Well, I wondered what it would be like to have a song that spoke just the opposite. So I decided to give it a shot. I know losing someone you care about can be painful, but man, some people act like it's an Apocalyptic thing and they never get over it.

Original Song © Gloria Gaynor

Lyrics (the altered ones, anyway) © unicorn-skydancer08

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I'm feeling so afraid
I'm so petrified
I just know I can never live
Without you by my side
And I have spent so many nights
Thinking how my life's so wrong
I'm not that strong
I don't know how to get along

So, please come back
Come back to me
'Cause you and I belong together
Like a couple ought to be

Why did you change your household lock?
Why did you confiscate my key?
You seem to get a perverse pleasure
Out of teasing and taunting me

Baby, please, I'm on my knees
Don't you know by now
That you're the one I aim to please?
'Cause you're the one
You've gone and hurt me with "goodbye"
I'm gonna crumble
Curl in a little ball and die
It ain't no lie

I won't survive
Don't you know that I need your love
In order to stay alive?
I've got no reason to live
I've got nothing left to give
I won't survive
I won't survive
Hey, hey!

It takes all the strength I have
Not to fall apart
And only you can mend the pieces
Of my broken heart
And I've spent oh so many nights
Just feeling sorry for myself
I always cry
My eyes will never become dry

Can't you see me?
You know it's true
I am that helpless, hopeless person
Still in love with you

And so you felt like dropping out
With the claim you want to be free
Now where can I aim my loving?
How is it you don't love me?

Please don't go, please close the door
What is the matter?
Do you not want me anymore?
You are the one
You've gone and hurt me with "goodbye"
You'll make me crumble
I may as well lay down and die
It ain't no lie

I won't survive
Don't know what I'll do without you
Don't know why I'm still alive
I've got no reason to live
I've got nothing left to give
I won't survive
I won't survive—

Oh—

Please don't go, please close the door
What is the matter?
Do you not want me anymore?
You are the one
You've gone and hurt me with "goodbye"
You'll make me crumble
I may as well lay down and die
It ain't no lie

I won't survive
Don't know what I'll do without you
Don't know why I'm still alive
I've got no reason to live
I've got nothing left to give
I won't survive
I won't survive—

I won't survive