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For Once In Your Life Lyrics
You just dont love me
And I just dont care
Oh I never said I would play fair
Something so perfect and so rare
There is no cure
Theres not a prayer, a prayer
So what can I do?
I am the only perfect choice
You've met your match
I've lost my voice
And when youre gone it gets so cold
I swear I'm too young to be this old, this old
so what can I do?
Oh I've been better
You know whats pure
And you know whats right
But I'm forever
Just do the right thing for once in your life, in your life
I've got a right to be this wrong
What started with a lie and a dare
All of me aches and the best of me is gone
And all that I am is out
And laid bare, and laid bare
So what can I do?
So what can I do?
Oh I've been better
You want whats pure
And you want whats right
But I'm forever just do the right thing for once in your life, in your life
So what can I do?
Its all I am (x4)
Oh I've been cheated
Covered in diamonds and covered in filth
But I'm still breathing
Oh please stick around
And I'll build you a world, you a world
Oh I've been strangled
Passed beyond sex or cut down to size
My life just dangles
Oh theres no context for once in my life, in my life
So what can I do?
So what can I do?
I know that I, I'm just a lost girl
But please stick around
And I'll build you a world
I'll build you a world
I'll build you a world
And I just dont care
Oh I never said I would play fair
Something so perfect and so rare
There is no cure
Theres not a prayer, a prayer
So what can I do?
You've met your match
I've lost my voice
And when youre gone it gets so cold
I swear I'm too young to be this old, this old
so what can I do?
You know whats pure
And you know whats right
But I'm forever
Just do the right thing for once in your life, in your life
I've got a right to be this wrong
What started with a lie and a dare
All of me aches and the best of me is gone
And all that I am is out
And laid bare, and laid bare
So what can I do?
So what can I do?
You want whats pure
And you want whats right
But I'm forever just do the right thing for once in your life, in your life
So what can I do?
Covered in diamonds and covered in filth
But I'm still breathing
Oh please stick around
And I'll build you a world, you a world
Passed beyond sex or cut down to size
My life just dangles
Oh theres no context for once in my life, in my life
So what can I do?
So what can I do?
But please stick around
And I'll build you a world
I'll build you a world
I'll build you a world
Song Info
Submitted by
youaintright20 On Mar 23, 2009
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seems like a song about being left. shes looking back now and feeling lonely. towards the end shes getting desperate and begging not to be left saying " please stick around and Ill build you a world" - funny considering at the begining she is singing about how he doesnt love her and she doesnt care.
yes but hey, haven't we all done it , making bold statements like "I don't care if you don't love me" whilst feeling gutted deep inside… ;)
yes but hey, haven't we all done it , making bold statements like "I don't care if you don't love me" whilst feeling gutted deep inside… ;)
I think she still not caring that he doesn't love her at the end of the song, she just wants him to be around anyway.
By the way i think this is what the song is about: You love this person so much you don't give a shit that he doesn't love you, you just need him around, but he wants whats pure and whats right and you're old, wrong, lost but you're forever, 'cause you could never leave him. You wish he could see that no one will love him like you do.
Oh please stick around And I'll build you a world, you a world
Makes me think of Frances although this was probably written before she left.
@pixidrizzl "you've met your match, I've lost my voice" I don't think this is about Frances
@pixidrizzl "you've met your match, I've lost my voice" I don't think this is about Frances
I have to disagree with other comments. The studio version (with slightly altered lyrics) makes the meaning of this song much more clear. This is not a break up song. This is not a love song.
Not exactly anyway...
This is a song she's singing to herself. Her "good side" is singing it to her "bad side."
The "you just don't love me" is saying that her "bad side" is fueled my self-hatred. And that leads to do self-destructive things, and to hurt other people.
This song is about her seeing this fact about herself. And she "just doesn't care". She doesn't care why the bad side does these things...she's just sick of it. She wants it to stop.
Because her good side is the "only perfect choice." And she's sure her good side will win (you've met your match)...and her good side, that loves herself, has finally "found her voice" with this song.