"I Don't Want To Be In Love" lyrics

My friends are all so well intentioned
They'd like to help me find somebody new
They've been so kind I find it hard to mention
That what I need the most is solitude

Give me a room with an ocean view
A stack of books I can muddle through
Long afternoons and nothing to do
And I will be fine

I don't want to be in love with anyone right now
It's all that I can do to keep myself together somehow
Since you've gone I don't know where to go or what I ought to do
But I know that I don't want to be in love with anyone right now
Anyone but you

They say I need somebody near me
For sympathy and human touch
Oh, I know they may be right in theory
But if it wasn't you it wouldn't mean that much

Give me the moon on an open road
Something soft on the radio
I'll follow the lines wherever they go
And I will be fine

And I don't want to be in love with anyone right now
It's all that I can do to keep myself together somehow
Since you've gone I don't know where to go or what I ought to do
But I know that I don't want to be in love with anyone right now
Anyone but you
Anyone but you