Don't tell me life can be unkind
How the goals you thought you could
Reach you can never find cause it's
All work ain't nothing free to bad you

Had to learn at the expense of me I'm
Tired of the lies I hear why do you feel
The need to dismiss your act's of selfishness
Why can't you own up to your own greed?

Nothing to lose and nothing to gain your
Still right where you've always been
Nothing ever seems to change nothing to
Prove or to be explained you get what you

Deserve in the end it's really all the same
So much for my trust in you my once long
Time friend you've done the damage that you
Can do the waste of energy you expend I've

Done nothing dishonest to you you lit the
Flame that burned this bridge and from all
I see and hear the guilt is laying heavy on
Your head. think of all the energy you've

Wasted trying to get even nothing come from
Bringing others down I'm all out of sympathy
You took what you could take from me
Squander your I'll gotten fortune back


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Nothing to Lose Lyrics as written by Jordan Lieberman James Paul Iii Cherry

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    pulley second best song (behind "Gone") sounds like the fuckin police or sumthing. pulley are fucked up, there like half ska, half punk, half rock, half classic rock too, fucked up i tell you. good song

    sic n twistedon June 05, 2002   Link
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    now how in the fuck can you 4 halves? god damn. do people even realize when they're exposing their ignorance like this?

    Nothingface555on June 13, 2002   Link
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    ah yeS! ahahhaha it does for sure sound like the police ahh! haha! hm. yes good song

    empty_satireon July 12, 2002   Link
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    very good song. in theory, four halves are entirly possible of two different objects.....blah blaha blaha but then again pulley is not two things.

    shanimal_caton January 17, 2007   Link
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    yeah, i never thought of the police but i can definatly feel it. it a good song, typical pulley lyrics: straight to the point...

    and nothingface555, ur a tool.

    fiascodagamaon March 14, 2007   Link
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    Cops? No, I definitely no not believe this song is about cops. To me, it makes way more sense about a really selfish friend, who wants everything, but won't work for it, and then gets mad when you don't give it to them. So they do something that ends the friendship, and then they wonder why they're not still not happy.

    But thats just me.

    RavenSanon October 27, 2007   Link
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    RavenSan: not police, but The Police. You know, "Roxanne," "Message in a Bottle," and so on?

    That being said, I don't really hear the similarity. Where's the reggae vibe? Sting's sometimes grating falsetto?

    Joe Howellon May 23, 2008   Link

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