When following your heart
From the start
Oh it's hard
I can't do this on my own

I need you to believe
In me
And these dreams
Everything is boring but change
Everything will change

Why don't you say what you want to me
Go ahead
I am not listening
Say what you want to me
Go ahead
I am not listening

So you're a romantic
You gotta fight for a cause
Music is my passion
Its my own natural love
And those words you wrote
Oh they cut me like a knife
If you would have chose differently
I would not be in your life

Why don't you say what you want to me
Go ahead
I am not listening
Say what you want to me
Go ahead
I am not listening

Blame it on bad timing
It's all my fault
Blame the situation
I am always wrong

Blame it on the weather
If we can't be together
Nothing lasts forever
Nothing lasts

Why don't you say what you want to me
Go ahead
I am not listening
Say what you want to me
Go ahead
I am not listening

Why don't you say what you want to me
Go ahead
I am not listening
Say what you want to me
Go ahead
I am not listening

Why don't you say what you want to me
Go ahead
I am not listening
Say what you want to me
Go ahead
I am not listening


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Say What You Want Lyrics as written by Ian Eric Kirkpatrick Ian Kirkpatrick

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    its about people who don't believe she'll ever make it in the music business adn the thing they say to her and such...

    judging by the amount of comments on this, im going to have to agree with them.

    xitschristinaaaon August 30, 2007   Link
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    I think it's about how her boyfriend and her are fighting about her making music and she won't listen being she is music driven and it's her pasion.

    imlovelytraceson February 10, 2008   Link

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