You don't feel you could love me but I feel you could

It was in the early morning hours when I fell into a phone call
Believing I had supernatural powers I slammed into a brick wall
I said "Hey, is this my problem? Is this my fault?
If that's the way it's gonna be I wanna call the whole thing to a halt"

You don't feel you could love me but I feel you could
You don't feel you could love me but I feel you could

I was walking down the street when I thought I heard this voice say
"Say, ain't we walkin' down the same street together on the very same day?"
I said "Hey, señorita, that's astute," I said
"Why don't we get together and call ourselves an institute?"

You don't feel you could love me but I feel you could
You don't feel you could love me but I feel you could

I was having this discussion in a taxi heading downtown...

- Paul Simon
"Gumboots"
Graceland (1986)