Had a little love, but I spread it thin   Falling in her arms and out again   Made a bad name for my game 'round town   Tore out my heart, shut it down      Nothing to do, nowhere to be   A simple little kind of free   Nothing to do, no one but me   And that's all I need      I'm perfectly lonely   I'm perfectly lonely   I'm perfectly lonely, yeah   'Cause I don't belong to anyone, nobody belongs to me      I see my friends around from time to time   When their ladies let 'em slip away   And when they ask me how I'm doin' with mine   This is always what I say      Nothing to do, nowhere to be   A simple little kind of free   Nothing to do, no one to be   Is it really hard to see why      I'm perfectly lonely   I'm perfectly lonely   I'm perfectly lonely, yeah   'Cause I don't belong to anyone, nobody belongs to me      And this is not to say there never comes a day   I'll take my chances and start again   And when I look behind on all my younger times   I'll have to thank the wrongs that led me to a love so strong      I'm perfectly lonely   I'm perfectly lonely   I'm perfectly lonely, yeah   'Cause I don't belong to anyone, and nobody belongs to me      That's the way, that's the way, that's the way that I want it   That's the way, that's the way, that's the way that I want it   That's the way, that's the way, that's the way that I want it   That's the way, that's the way, that's the way that I want it