Forgive and forget
It's just a memory
It won't get me very far this time
Is what I've done to you unforgivable?
Silence fills the room and I get the message.
Emptiness is all that's left this time.
Is what I meant to you that forgettable?

Better than Better than me of coarse.
You're always right.
You're always on the ball.
Better than Better than everything
I've done for you cause now you can finally sleep.
Can you smile too?

I took it as a threat
You meant it as the doctrine
Of everything that was and would become.
I don't have to ask, you don't miss me at all.
You made it so obvious
When you slowly walked away
And then I prayed in vain.
I would've traded everything
even for just a taste.
I'll live with the loneliness.
but I'll never forget
I was never your best bet.

Better than Better than me of coarse.
You're always right.
You're always on the ball
Better than Better than everything
I've done for you
Cause now you can finally sleep.
Can you smile too?
Now you can sleep, can you smile too?
Can you smile now that I'm gone?


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Just a Taste Lyrics as written by Peter Allen Costa Pouyan Sean Afkary

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    i think its about someone who screwed up (the singer) and the person they are singing about wont forgive them and will be happier leaving the screw up behind, but the screw up just wants another chance.

    kind of reminds me where im at with my ex girlfriend who cheated on me and i still won't forgive her but she keeps trying to be friends.

    molsonthemaggoton March 15, 2007   Link

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