Long Way Down Lyrics

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Cover art for Long Way Down lyrics by One Direction

We've been in fire Went down in the flames We sailed the ocean And drowned in the waves Built a cathedral But we never prayed We had it all, yeah And we walked away

In this verse, the narrator tells about how much they built together and they threw it all away. It all drift away like it was nothing.

Point of no return and now It's just too late to turn around I try to forgive you But I struggle 'cause I don't know how We built it up so high and now I'm fallin' It's a long way down It's a long way down, from here

He is saying that there is no way that they could get back together again. He doesn't know how to forgive the other person because she hurted him so badly and he just can't get over it. Again, he tells how "high" they were and now they have just fell apart. It was a long way down.

We had a mountain But took it for granted We had a spaceship But we couldn't land it We found an island But we got stranded We had it all Who could've planned it?

He returns to say about how much they built together and they threw it all away. And he just didn't see it coming.

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