Chances

Athlete

Take all your chances while you can
Never know when they'll pass you by
Like a sum a mathematician cannot solve
Like me trying my hardest to explain

It's all about your cries and kisses
Those first steps that I can't calculate
I need some more of you to take me over

If I had the chance to start again
Then you would be the one I'd come and find
Like the poster of Berlin on my wall
Maybe there's a chance our walls might fall

It's all about your cries and kisses
Those first steps that I can't calculate
I need some more of you to take me over

It's all about your cries and kisses
Those first steps that I can't calculate
I need some more of you to take me over
I've no idea 'cause
I can't calculate

How to start again
How to start again
How to start again
How to start again
It's all about you.


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Chances Lyrics as written by Joel Laslett Pott Carey Suthon Willetts

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    this is very close to being my favourite song on the album, its such a great song, with great anticipation leading up to the chorus, and the vocals being very coldplay esq! but in my view better! awesome

    Athlete***on February 07, 2005   Link

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