(One, two, three)

Get dressed in your bed, while she's asleep
It isn't right but it isn't hard
Tell me, tell me, won't you understand?
Show me, show me, show me a better plan
It's summer lies, it's someone else's nothing
Here it comes now

You asked me to stay
You asked me to stay
You asked me to stay
But there's a million reasons to leave

Find a job, find a friend
Find a home, find a dog
Settle down, out of town
Find a dream, shut it down

Please, please don't point it that way
It's just a trigger that goes once and you'll be unafraid
I wish that I'd been noticed, but it never goes that way
The silence that you brought has gone, gone, gone

Tell me, tell me, won't you understand?
Show me, show me, show me

You asked me to stay
You asked me to stay
You asked me to stay
But there's a million reasons to leave

Show me what to say, show me what to be
Show me what to see, show me what to be

Find a job, find a friend
Find a home, find a dog
Settle down, out of town
Find a dream, shut it down

I don't wanna be in there with you
I don't wanna be in there without your loving either
I waited for your thoughts
Can't wait no longer


Lyrics submitted by LasDivine, edited by LivMon, pcharles, ehban, m300039, IfYouSaySo

One Way Trigger Lyrics as written by Julian Casablancas Fabrizio Moretti

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    to me it's about this guy who met this girl inn summer (as he says "it's summer lies", like those happy relationships that last no longer than four months and between this time they believe and say it's going to last forever) in a holliday or something. Then, the hollyday ends, he has to go, he always knew it was going to happen. But the girl doesn't want it to happen, she wants him to stay. He doesn't want ("I don't wanna be in there with you": he doesn't want to take her with him, "I don't wanna be in there without your loving either", he doesn't want to lose that love, but he will) and doesn't know how to break up (" show me what to say"), but there is no other option no better plan, no better perspective ("show me a better plan", "show me what to see", "show me what to be"), he has to build his life ("find a job, find a friend, find a home, find a dog, settle down out of town, find a dream, shut it down").

    takeapieceon November 08, 2014   Link

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