If I Didn't Believe in You

There are people
 And they are publishing my book
 And there's a party that they are throwing
 And while you've made it very clear that you're not going
 I will be going
 And that, that's done
 But what's it really about?
 Is it really about a party, Cathy?
 Can we please for a minute stop blaming
 And say what you feel?
 Is it just that you're disappointed
 To be going again to Ohio?
 Did you think this would all be much easier
 Than it's turned out to be?
 Well, then talk to me, Cathy
 Talk to me
 If I didn't believe in you
 We'd never have gotten this far
 If I didn't believe in you
 And all of the ten thousand women you are
 If I didn't think you could do
 Anything that you ever wanted to
 If I wasn't certain that you'd come through somehow
 The fact of the matter is, Cathy
 I wouldn't be standing here now
 If I didn't believe in you
 We wouldn't be having this fight
 If I didn't believe in you
 I would walk out the door and say
 "Cathy, you're right"
 But I never could let that go
 Knowing the things about you I know
 Things, when I met you four years ago, I knew
 It never took much convincing
 To make me believe in you
 Don't we get to be happy, Cathy?
 At some point down the line
 Don't we get to relax?
 Without some new tsuris
 To push me yet further from you?
 And if I'm cheering on your side, Cathy
 Why can't you support mine?
 Why do I have to feel
 I've committed some felony
 Doing what I always swore I would do?
 I don't want you to hurt, hey, hey
 I don't want you to sink
 But you know what I think?
 I think you'll be fine!
 Just hang on and you'll see
 But don't make me wait 'til you do
 To be happy with you
 Will you listen to me?
 No one can give you courage
 No one can thicken your skin
 I will not fail so you can be comfortable, Cathy
 I will not lose because you can't win
 If I didn't believe in you
 And here's where the travelogue ends
 If I didn't believe in you
 I couldn't have stood before all of our friends
 And said, "This is the life I choose
 This is the thing I can't bear to lose
 Trip us or trap us, but we refuse to fall"
 That's what I thought we agreed on, Cathy
 If I hadn't believed in you
 I wouldn't have loved you at all