It's been this many years It's been that many tears And I still have to ask the same question: Why?
Why don't it feel like it felt on the night? When you and me would kiss at night,(*) Remember what we tripped like. Why don't it feel like it felt on the first night? Now it's so hard to find two words to say...
Funny me, funny you! Don't have nothing in common You wanted me to have your heart Now you want it back? What about the promise you made to me? That you wouldn't trade the key for no damn reason
And suddenly we're flying high(**) Now it's Mayday we're falling fast You're trying to get lost, I'm trying to pull up And damn I can't say You said you didn't need me I really think that you would leave me
[Chorus:] Why don't it feel like it felt on the first night? When you and me would kiss at night, Remember what we tripped Why don't it feel like it felt on the first night? Now it's so hard to find two words to say...
Why don't it feel like it felt on the first night? When we were saying things like: Where have you been all my life? Why don't it feel like it felt on the first night? Now it's so to find two words to say...
Now the kids are looking at me like I'm to blame And no longer got their respect for me, Don't want to hear what I'm saying, I know how it feels to be ashamed 'Cause when I was young I felt that pain too
And I can't say nothing would 'cause you to make a change And that's the reason that we're going our separate ways Then who am I fooling? What am I doing thinking you love me?
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You think by this time I would get it right Know the schemes and the things that make it be right When you said you could stay no longer I thought I had just a little more daylight
Like when we use to turn a fight into a night I know the things I use to do to make you feel right I would give in anything for fortune I made To back the days that the feeling was so right
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Why the dreams we had we threw them all away? Why the dreams we had we let them slip away?