What am I supposed to do with all these blues
Haunting me
Everywhere no matter what I do
Watching the candle flicker out in the evening glow
I can't let go
When will the night be over

[Chorus]
I didn't mean to fall
In love with you
And baby there's a name
For what you put me through
It isn't love
It's robbery
I'm sleeping with the ghost of you and me

Seen a lot of broken hearts go sailing by phantom ships
Lost as sea and one of them is mine
Raising my glass I sing a toast to the midnight sky
I wonder why the stars don't seem to guide me

[Chorus]

The ghost of you and me when will it set me free
I hear voices call following footsteps down the hall
Trying to save what's left of my heart and soul
Watching the candle flicker out in the evening glow
I can't let go when will the night be over

[Chorus: x2]


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    sleeping with a ghost... is that some sort of branch of nechrophelia?

    Girl in Greenon April 28, 2002   Link
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    I think this song is about a guy who broke up with a girl and is still in love with her, but he knows they will never get back together.

    manyamoreon June 13, 2002   Link
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    I agree with above. ^ This isn't even my usual choice of music, but I just really liked the line, "I didn't mean to fall in love with you." Like this song, I can't let go either

    goldenshoeson July 21, 2002   Link
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    I dont really listen to BBMak but when I heard this song on the radio I just fell in love with it!! I think this song is about, yeah, a guy who broke up with a girl and hes really heart broken and hes trying to get over her... yeah i dunno thats pretty much it c ya!

    xegirl3ebon August 03, 2002   Link
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    oh yeah the video is good too

    xegirl3ebon August 03, 2002   Link
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    i didn't mean to fall in love with you.....read my mind. good line huh? i guess i didn't mean for my feelings to end up the way they did...i know it won't be you and me df..but i love you anyways...july 4 forever

    jesusmyheartadoresuon August 06, 2002   Link
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    wow, BBmak are so cool. yesterday heard there new song. and it was awsome. im not in pop but this guys kick ass.

    LoserDude45on August 20, 2002   Link
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    This song gives me chills. Not only can I relate to it on some level.. but it also just sounds so.. wistful, regretful.. wow. My favorite part would have to be 'Seen a lot of broken hearts go sailing by/Phantom ships, lost at sea/And one of them is mine/Raising my glass I sing a toast to the midnight sky/I wonder why the stars don't seem to guide me'.

    shivers

    To me this song means, the guy is saying that he feels cheated. He risked a lot falling in love when that was never his intention, and she let him down.. and now he's left with a broken spirit, wondering why. He's haunted by what his heart felt because of her, she let him go, so he doesn't know where to go from here.

    Yeah...

    AliMarieon July 02, 2003   Link
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    I feel just like this song. I broke up with a guy about 2 years ago and after a few months I knew I made a huge mistake, so we were going to get back together, but something happened between him and his parents and he moved out, I haven't heard from him since. His name is Austin, I wish there was a way I could tell him that I love him and I want to spend the rest of my life with him. I have tried to get over him, but I just can't, he was and still is my everything.

    GlassBlueEyeson February 04, 2005   Link
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    this is a creepy song... about being used and then broken up with.

    SMUSER17185761on June 20, 2007   Link

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