And derailed, we failed
To keep our love on course
Now we lost what was left
Of any chance that we had
What a way to go out

And derailed, I'm afraid
I failed to keep you by my side
The mistakes we made
Will keep us drifting farther apart
What a way to go out



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Derailed Lyrics as written by Chad Lane Crawford Pouyan Sean Afkary

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    Oh, I like this song quite a lot. I love the song set up on the album. The meanings is very obvious.

    Quit_Lollygaggingon December 19, 2007   Link
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    does anyone else think this song sounds kind of similar to penelope by saosin in places?? anyone?

    no.hxc.dancingon May 08, 2008   Link
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    This is indeed a great song, you can sense the emotion flowing through the song. TO no.hxc.dancing: I believe the vocals sound similar to Penelope by saosin, however I dont believe the underlying message is the same. I could be wrong however, just my opinion ;-)

    apexofgraceon July 02, 2008   Link
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    I think this song would have been much better without the acoustic guitar... it bothers me so much that nearly every band has to throw in acoustics somewhere in their album or in a bonus track to be cool, bah. >_

    KokoNotakiion September 09, 2007   Link

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