If I Didn’t Believe in You Lyrics – Ben Platt

Read the full If I Didn’t Believe in You lyrics by Ben Platt from the album The Last Five Years along with the music video, song credits, release information and other details about the song. If you enjoy Ben Platt’s music, you can also explore Nobody Needs to Know and Goodbye Until Tomorrow / I Could Never Rescue You, two other songs by Ben Platt.

[JAMIE]
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’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 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’d 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?
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
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 that you can be comfortable, Cathy
I will not lose because you can’t win

If I didn’t believe in you
Then 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

[JAMIE, spoken]
So why don’t you just put on your dress
And we’ll go, okay?
Cathy, can we do that, please?
Please!