turn your water into wine
(please) turn your heart toward mine
if I could stop the time
everything would be just fine

('cuz) we'd still be together
together like however
long like forever
we would have ended never

but it's just like alchemy, alchemy, alchemy
what the heck is so wrong with me, wrong with me, wrong with me
why's this always happen to me, happen to me, happen to me
'cuz it's just like alchemy...

turn your heart of lead
into a heart of gold
is it something that I said
is it something you were told

it's messing with my head
I'm left out in the cold
I'd be better off dead
'cuz now it's getting old

but it's just like alchemy, alchemy, alchemy
what the heck is so wrong with me, wrong with me, wrong with me
why's this always happen to me, happen to me, happen to me
'cuz it's just like alchemy...

turn your water into wine
(please) turn your heart toward mine
if I could stop the time
everything would be just fine

but it's just like alchemy, alchemy, alchemy
what the heck is so wrong with me, wrong with me, wrong with me
why's this always happen to me, happen to me, happen to me
'cuz it's just like alchemy...
some form of alchemy...
yeah it's just like alchemy...
because something is so wrong with me...
because this always happens to me...
yeah it's just like alchemy!


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    it's about a guy who gets dumped by his girlfriend when everything was going perfect and he wishes that he could go back and make everything right so it would last forever, but he can't because it, and every other relationship, is impossible, like alchemy.

    aberzombie143on July 26, 2002   Link

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