I Won't Be There

Simple Plan

I Don't want to make this
Harder then I have to this
Is how it has to be. There's
So many things I want to say but
You just don't listen to me.

[Chorus]
I don't want to hurt you
You don't want to hurt me
I can't stand you and
You can't stand me.
We can't re-arrange we you can never
Change me, say good bye nothing I say
Can change you mind.
Because I can't stay tomorrow I'll
Be on my way. So don't expect to
Find me sleeping in my bed cause
When you wake up I won't be there I won't be there

Everything I say you find away to make it
Sound like I was born just yesterday.
And everything you thought me doesn't
Mean a thing so I am going my way.

[Chorus]

This is the last night that I spend
At home. And it won't take long
For you to notice won't take long for you find out that I am gone.

[Chorus: x2]

[Chorus: x3]
I won't be there


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I Won't Be There Lyrics as written by Arnold David Lanni Arnold Lanni

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    wouldnt it be odd if this song was actually about leaving home... not a break up... and he is saying that everything his parents taught him doesnt mean anything to him so he is going his way... hmm something to think about

    GCchic746on June 16, 2002   Link

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