Gimme Sympathy

Metric

Get hot
Get too close to the flame
Wild open space
Talk like an open book
Sign me up

Got no time to take a picture
I'll remember someday
All the chances we took
We're so close to something
Better left unknown
I can feel it in my bones

Gimme sympathy
After all of this is gone
Who would you rather be
The Beatles or The Rolling Stones
Oh seriously, you're gonna make mistakes,
You're young
Come on baby play me something like
Here comes the sun

Don't go
Stay with the all unknown
Stay away from the hooks
All the chances we took
We're so close to something
Better left unknown
I can feel it in my bones

Gimme sympathy


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Gimme Sympathy Lyrics as written by James Shaw Emily Haines

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    I think it just means take risks when your young like the beatles did the rolling stones didn't take as many risks as a young band, and the beatles are way more credited and here comes the sun is written by the beatles, and she's saying play here comes the sun :S

    i have no clue

    shadowpuppet7on April 08, 2009   Link

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