Intro
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I found her diary underneath the tree and started reading about me
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The words she'd written took me by surprise; you'd never read them in her eyes.
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She said that she had found the love she'd waited for
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Wouldn't you know it? She wouldn't show it
[Verse]
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Then she, confronted with the writing there, simply pretended not to care
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I passed it off as just in keeping with her total disconcerting air.
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And though she tried to hide the love that she denied
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Wouldn't you know it? She wouldn't show it.
[Chorus]
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And as I go through my life
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I will give to her, my wife
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All the sweet things I can find.
[Verse]
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I found her diary underneath the tree and started reading about me
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The words began to stick, then tears to fall. Her meaning now was clear to see
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The love she'd waited for was someone else, not me.
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Wouldn't you know it? She wouldn't show it.
[Chorus]
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And as I go through my life
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I will wish for her, his wife
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All the sweet things she can find
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All the sweet things they can find.