You say you don't know what love means anymore
Since I found you
I'm tearing down the walls without you
And I'm getting lost in all the plans that I heard you make

About the older times
About the greater times

Oh I don't know, I don't know anyway
Look up
Look Up
I'll keep my eyes on you
Do you remember when you were a child then

And you laughed when you were a child then
There's no meaning anymore
We,re floating in the sky
And if you think that we are older now
It's just our heads are outterflies
Are you the one that I've been waiting for ?
You say you don't know what love means anymore
Since I 'found you
I'm tearing down the walls, the walls, the walls...
Are you the one that I've been waiting for ?



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    just beautiful.

    about the greater times.

    redguyon July 09, 2007   Link
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    the singer knows how much greater everything was when everything was new (when they were little)

    but he or she is smart enough to know that just because they have grown up doesn't mean the world is ugly

    it feels like the singer is re-installing the sense of newborn joy in the boy/girl that he/she is also falling in love with

    nunca crezcas

    lightoftheworldon April 26, 2008   Link
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    ps i know the singer is a girl, i said boy/girl because the story can be applied either way =)

    lightoftheworldon April 27, 2008   Link

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