C -- C/B -- Am -- G [2t]
v.1
Oh CI can't take another Emheartache
Tho you Fsay you're my friend GI'm at my wit's end
CYou say your love is Embona-fide but that don't Fco-incide
With the things that you do and when I Cask you to exFplain you Gsay
Chorus:
You gotta be Fcruel to be Gkind Emin the right Cmeasure
FCruel to be Gkind it's a Emvery good Csign
FCruel to be Gkind Emmeans that I Clove you
FBaby you gotta be Gcruel to beCkind
v.2
Well I do my best to understand you
But you still mystify I wanna know why
I pick myself up off the ground to have you knock me back down
Again and again and when I ask you to explain [deny it] you say
Instr. Brk.
Rpt v.2
Rpt Ch ad lib to end