What would I do?
Lonely as you
Pleasure or pain I can choose
What would I do?
Lonely as you
Pleasure or pain I can choose

Wake up you're dreamin' I can't stand your screamin'
Drowning out these prayers just some words without meanin'
Spare all the preachin' my secret's worth keepin'
No one understands like I do

Keep out of reach I'm your leadin' deletion
Hide behind these masks
Though they still see right through them
Every now and then
You're down and out my friend
Down and out again
Down and out again
Down and out again, but I'm down with you

One more time for the last time
One more time for release
One more time for the last time
Everyone wants to believe

Blame it on youth, all these years I've been losin'
Blame it on the past, it's the last place I knew you
Blame all the children their rage and their ruin
Blame it on the black and the blue

Every now and then
You're down and out my friend
Down and out again
Down and out again
Down and out again, but I'm down with you

One more time for the last time
One more time for release
One more time for the last time
Everyone wants to believe

Every now and then
You're down and out my friend
Down and out again
Down and out again
Down and out again, but I'm down with you

One more time for the last time
One more time for release
One more time for the last time
Everyone wants to believe

One more time for the last time
One more time for release
One more time for the last time
Everyone wants to believe

One more time for the last time
One more time for release
One more time for the very last time
Everyone wants to believe, all right


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Lonely as You Lyrics as written by Christopher A. Shiflett Taylor Hawkins

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    "One more time for release"...raises eyebrow "Every now and then, you're down and out my friend" - eyebrow raised higher!

    strider3005on July 15, 2006   Link

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