How can I show what I feel for you?
I cannot go out and steal for you,
I cannot die like a meal for you.
How can love survive?

The story:

OK, no red face in front of hundreds of musical theater fans, and I don't even know exactly when I realized that I didn't have the words precisely right, but I had been listening to Rodgers & Hammerstein since I was a tiny girl and this line had always made me a little queasy and creeped out, so I was pleased to finally comprehend a non-cannibalistic reference.