Do you mean all the things you are?
Are you pleased with the way things are?
Wear that dress to protect this scar
That only I have seen

Do you give just to please yourself?
Do you wish you were somewhere else?
Justified all the things you tried
Said that it was all for me

And be near
Just for the moment
Stay here
Never go home

Did you know that everything she ever does is for you?
So it goes, the story of a broken heart comes true
It comes true

Have you learned all the secrets yet?
Will you burn by the things I've said?
Took the dive just to feel alive
But never heard the truth

Now I'm in love but I don't know how
I'm in pain cause I want it now
As I sit watching her eyes close
I slowly open mine

And be near
Just for the moment
Stay here
Never go home

Did you know that everything she ever does is for you?
So it goes, the story of a broken heart comes true, comes true

I am so confused by this
I know that life is hit or miss
Days are stung by too much sun
I think that you may be the one

Cover yourself up in me
Shrouded in what could have been
I will listen to your pain
If you listen to me

Did you know that everything she ever does is for you?
So it goes, as the story of a broken heart comes true,
Did you know that everything she ever does is for you?
And I know, the story of a broken heart comes true
Comes true
True
It comes true
True


Lyrics submitted by Mezz115

Story Lyrics as written by Jesse Royal Carmichael Adam Levine

Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

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    USER1910 had a great interpretation. I think that's right, that he wants her to forget everything they fought about and just love each other. At first, he didn't mean to fall in love with her, but he did, and now he understands how important it is and all he wants to do is share it with her and remember it. Send me an email sometime, USER1910. :)

    anime_guitar444on June 29, 2008   Link

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