Not For Naught - Not The One Lyrics

I am not the one you want, but I'm the one who's here
The rest of the world is beyond our reach, But I'm the one who's near
I'm the one you need right now, As fate has placed us here
To figure out how to get along let me volunteer

You don't have to love me now. I'll just sit here with you
We can talk about our friends and our families with nothing more to do
You can sit with your back to mine and wish it would all disappear
But we'll just come back to this obvious fact that I'm the one who's here

And you are not the one I want. We're here because of fate
But we need to make every second count, so let's not equivocate
You are what I need right now as I'd rather not be alone
We can sit with our backs together and ponder the vast unknown

But I don't have to love you, either. We'll just sit here in the dark
We can talk about the world and the weather and avoid that question mark
In this crazy uncertain time so stark and so austere
We shouldn't forgo what we both well know that I'm the one who's here

The world is falling apart and it's just you and me
We've got no book or set of guidelines to tell us how we ought to be

We don't have to love each other. We just need to get along
And given these awfully strange circumstances, nothing we do could be wrong
In this crazy uncertain world we need some humanity
Just look around and see that you've found the one who's here is me

You don't have to love me now; you have other things on your mind
Everything we had planned for the future has started to unwind
You can sit with your back to mine and hope that I'll just disappear
We'll just come back to this palpable fact that I'm the one who's here

I'm gonna say it again, you know I'm the one who's here