For Love Not Lisa

Had A Lover

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If I've got some time to waste
I'll maybe make this all about you
I don't get your hardly ways
Maybe follow down

All those days of being sorry
You won't take the most of me
I don't get this, I don't get this
Maybe run around

Had a lover, had a lover
Had a lover and I had to leave her
Had a lover, had a lover
Had a lover and I had to leave her dead

If I fake some tiny ways
Maybe make this all about you
If I candy coat some things
Maybe run me down

Well I know this place
I know your heart
I see him looking right at you

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2010-09-07 22:28:26

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"Had A Lover was really the only older song on Information Superdriveway. I never loved that song but other people kept bringing it up while writing songs for the second record, so I thought maybe I’m dumb and we should just add it to the new record... lyrically it was really about dating people you should not be with, and how toxic those people can be on you." - Mike Lewis, FLNL

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