If You Leave

Nada Surf

If you leave don't leave now please don't take my heart away
Promise me just one more night then we'll go our separate ways
We always had time on our side now it's fading fast
Every second every moment we've got to,
we've got to make it last

I touch you once I touch you twice I won't let got at any price
I need you now like I need you then you always said we'd still be friends
someday.

If you leave I won't cry I won't waste one single day
But if you leave don't look back I'll run the other way
Seven years went under the bridge like time was standing still
Heaven knows what happens now you've got to
You've got to say you will

I touch you once I touch you twice I won't let got at any price
I need you now like I need you then you always said we'd meet again

I touch you once I touch you twice I won't let got at any price
I need you now like I need you then you always said we'd still be friends

I touch you once I touch you twice I won't let got at any price



Lyrics submitted by Jillian04

If You Leave Lyrics as written by Paul David Humphreys Martin Handsley Cooper

Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

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    I ADORE THIS SONG AND THE O.C!!! nada surf did a good job covering it, i like it better than the origional and it was used at such a perfect time on the o.c it made anna leaving so much sader!~!! adam brody is toatlly adorable lol hes so hot lol and so is ben mckenize

    Bubblezon February 02, 2005   Link

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