Here the lights fall just as hard
A bit softer in the stall
It's not really wrong
It's not really right
I'm wide awake

She's upfront, upshot
Upstart up in every case
The kind of girl that whispers
Thank god for you
Oh yeah, all you got/need is me

Her confusion is in
The night that I stumbled
It's in the morning
That I that I struggled
Because I start to forget
But she will always remember
The kind of girl who laughs and says
Get up off your knees
Oh yeah, all you need/want is me

So you come and so you go
Tell me how hard how fast
Baby, tell me how high I must go
Tell me what you want
And tell me what you need
Tell me how hard, how fast, baby
How high I must go
Oh yeah, well all you need is me
This is the time of my life


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    baaasically my relationship in a nutshell. but a little different from how it seems like they meant it. my girlfriend lives 700 miles away right now (i'm in chicago, she's in new york). the first line i feel really explains that our cities aren't all the different.

    "she's up front..." that's her. she's crazy energetic and into so much and really informed about stuff. the middle stuff i associate with jsut some random stuff about us. "tell me what you want..." is like expressing exactly what i feel for her. i'd do anything for her.

    onegrrlprideparadeon November 10, 2006   Link

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