'No matter how much you think you want or need it, the past has to remain just that, the past...'
Could've given you everything that you need
but I cannot turn back the years
The perfect love was all you wanted from me
but I cannot turn back the years
So we have to be strong, and I'm finding that hard
we have to move on, but no matter how hard I try
if your heart's in pieces, you look for the truth
and when I look deep down inside I know, it's too bad I love you
Sometimes. hits me in the morning, hits me at night
that I cannot turn back the years
so I look out my window, turn off my light
but I cannot turn back the years
Can't make it seem easy, when you're all that I see
can't live in a dream and I won't serenade the truth
people are hurting and they're looking to me
and I look at you there's nothing more to say, it's too bad I love you
But I'm never gonna give it up
All that I lived for, all that I dreamed
but I cannot turn back the years
You're the water i drink, you're the air that I breathe
but i cannot turn back the years
So we have to be strong, and I'm finding that hard
we have to move on, but no matter how hard I try
if your heart's in pieces, you look for the truth
and when I look deep down inside I know, it's too bad I love you
But I'm never gonna give it upNow we're looking face to face
and eye to eye
baby I can feel your pain,
he aint doing you right.
Think of all the time you waste
you tried and tried
he never really knew your worth
but you don't have to cry
and whenever he won't do you the way you want him to
don't cry
(I'll be there no more hurt, no more pain)
baby you're the air I breath
and I give the world to see you smile
(all I want is to see you smile for me)
now you open up your eyes to see
he's not the one
let him go just like a stormy haze
i'll bring out your sun
now your pain is in the past
dry your eyes
and all I ask just one more thing
let me see you smile
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when your all alone - smile
waiting by the phone - smile
and he don;t call - smile for me
i'll be by your side - smile
no more lonley nights - smile, smile for me
baby won;t you smile for me
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