Yesterday I lost my closest friend
Yesterday I wanted time to end
I wonder if my heart will ever mend
I just let you slip away
4 A-M forever

Maybe I'll never see you smile again
Maybe we thought that it was all pretend
All these words that I could never send
I just let them slip away
4 AM forever

Why don't you hear me when I'm calling out to you (to you)
Why don't you listen when I try to make it through (to you)
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, you'll never know
Hold a little tighter
4 A-M forever

Maybe one day when I can move along
Maybe someday when you can hear this song
You won't let it slip away
4 AM forever

And I wish the sun would never come
It's 4 A-M and you are done
I hope you know you're letting go
It's 4 A-M and I'm alone

Why don't you hear me when I'm calling out to you (to you)
Why don't you listen when I try to make it through (to you)
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, you'll never know
Hold a little tighter

Why don't you hear me when I'm calling out to you (to you)
Why don't you listen when I try to make it through (to you)
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, you'll never know
Hold a little tighter
4 A-M forever


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4:AM Forever Lyrics as written by Lee Gaze Ian Watkins

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    Damn what a good song..

    It is clearly about a good friend of the band/singer.. It makes pretty good sense that he/she died one day @ 4 am, and the singer often wakes up @ 4 am and thinks of him and hope the sun will never come up again..( » End of the world » he would be with his diseased friend.. )

    Janzzon June 24, 2006   Link

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