Valentine

The Get Up Kids

It's words you forget
To anniversary songs
The bottles bite back
Your tolerance wrong
Your good intentions count for little anymore
If you're sorry, why wage war?

I'm not fully convinced
There's something wrong with this
Could another point of view
Biased and untrue
Tear me away from you?

Will you be my valentine?
If I'm a world away?
Apologies are breaking me
The constants aren't so constant anymore

Two days I wait for
Calls to come though
Tonight for me translates to yesterday to you

Bend and you wave
You're barely away
I wish I could say tonight
That when you bend and wave goodbye
You'd take me with you

Will you be my valentine?
If I'm a world away?
Apologies are breaking me
The constants aren't so constant anymore
The constants aren't so constant anymore

Will you be my valentine? (the constants aren't so constant anymore)
Will you be my valentine? (the constants aren't so constant anymore)
If I'm a world away? (the constants aren't so constant anymore)
If I'm a world away? (the constants aren't so constant anymore)

The constants aren't so constant anymore


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    I just love this song. Lyrics, music, voice, everything is perfectly to make you cry.

    alomaxrawwron December 04, 2006   Link

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