Feet, don't fail me now,
Take me to the finish line.
Oh my heart, it breaks
Every step I take,
But I'm hoping that the gates,
They'll tell me that you're mine.

Walking through the city streets;
Is it by mistake or design?
I feel so alone on a Friday night.
Can you make me feel like home,
If I tell you you're mine?
It's like I told you honey:

Don't make me sad,
Don't make me cry.
Sometimes love is not enough
The road gets tough,
I don't know why.
Keep making me laugh,
Let's go get high
The road is long, we carry on
Try to have fun in the meantime

Take a walk on the wild side,
Let me kiss you hard in the pouring rain,
You like your boys insane.
Choose your last words,
This is the last time,
'Cause you and I,
We were born to die.

Lost but now I am found.
I can see, once I was blind.
I was so confused as a little child,
Trying to take what I could find,
Scared that I couldn't find
All the answers, honey.

Don't make me sad,
Don't make me cry,
Sometimes love is not enough,
The road gets tough,
I don't know why.
Keep making me laugh,
Let's go get high.
The road is long, we carry on,
Try to have fun in the meantime.

Take a walk on the wild side,
Let me kiss you hard in the pouring rain,
Like your boys insane.
Choose your last words,
This is the last time,
'Cause you and I,
We were born to die.

Born to die...
Take a walk on the wild side...
We were born,
Born to die.

Kiss me hard in the pouring rain,
Cause you and I
Were born to die.

Let's go get high,
Kiss me hard in the pouring rain,
Like your boys insane
Cause you and I,
Were born to die

Born...

Born...

Cause you and I
were born to...
Die...



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    i think this song is about how everyone dies and death is inevitable

    uhhliveon March 07, 2013   Link

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