OXYGEN - David Franj:

Head-lights, swirving cars, white man chasing ghosts, bleeding my heart,
City smog feels your eyes, let me catch the words that spill from your mind.
You're gonna be alright.

Cross my heart, hope to die, you're my oxygen, I'm alive,
Cross my heart, hope to die, you're my oxygen, I'm alive.

Say a prayer in your room for the friends that you once knew,
To that person that you wanna be.
Hold your breath (hold your breath) for the sun (for the sun),
But the clouds are all we've got, now it's better, just like before.
And it's nothing else more.

Chorus

Say a prayer for yourselves and a love that we leave behind,
Save that look while it lasts, coz it might not come again.

Chorus


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    great song. hey kat i gotta say. i have lost the one that means everything to me and i gotta say, you have to let go or it will continue to hurt. everything in your life isn't messed up it may not be the same as before i totally agree with that, but we all go through changes and without them our lives would be typical and boring. But dont wanna tell you what to do with YOUR life. nonetheless this song is really really good.

    LiveUrLifeon September 23, 2002   Link

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