Tell me where you're goin or
What is going wrong
I felt you leavin before
You'd even gone
And hold me now
Or never ever hold me again
No more talk
Can take me away from this pain I'm in

See the moonlight shinin on
Your window pane
See it leave you as
Faithful as it came
Please yourself so you
Don't have to be afraid
Make amends
Or carry on another way

Tell me what you were thinkin
To treat somebody so
The care he took the
Lengths to which he'd go
Coals are hot to walk
Across without your shoes
But in the end
Know that you got nothin to lose


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    I think the first time I heard this song was a couple months back but it didn't really hit me until this weekend. Personally, the tone of this song admits there's some pain, but there's always been pain, and there always will be pain. Throw it on the pile and keep on keepin on.

    gotta love connecting with a song

    Reallydontknowon December 04, 2012   Link

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