Exiles

Look...what you're doing
Baby what in heaven are you thinking of?
Look...what you're doing
Will you throw away such sweet, sweet love,
Will you throw away such sweet, sweet love.

You used to say that you would always stay
But now you say you want to find your freedom.
But are the promises of being free
Worth the sacrifice of all you had with me.

You know i've always tried the best i could
To prove my love to you and make you happy
And once upon a time if felt so good
What has happened now to make you want to fly.
Do you want to see me cry?

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Look...what you're doing
Baby what in heaven are you thinking of?
Look...what you're doing
Will you throw away such sweet, sweet love,
Will you throw away such sweet, sweet love.

I ain't the fool that you believe i am
You tell your lies but
I can see right through them.

Cause in your eyes i see another man
But he will never love you like you know i can.
Oh, girl, you know i can.

(you better open up your eyes and)

(repeat chorus)

Baby, how could i have been so vain
To make you think that you're the only one to blame.
For all these distances and all of this pain
Baby, how could i have been so blind
To presuppose that your needs were just like mine
You've been a prisoner for a long, long time.
But now you run from me
And i will set you free
If that's the way it must be.

I tried so hard to make you part of me
That every time i looked at you
I thought i'd see
Someone that you could never ever be.
So full of pride that i could not see straight
I thought you'd change
If i could only wait
I see the truth now but it's much too late
Cause now you run from me
And i will set you free
If that's the way it must be.

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Oh--oh--baby how'd it ever get so cold and mean
Oh--oh. is there nothing left but silence in between.

(repeat chorus)

Baby how'd we hold on so long
To something both of us must have known was wrong
We're either fools or must be terrible strong.
Cause now you run from me.
And i will set you free
If that's the way it must be.

Seeing you again
Was like meeting for the first time
In a foggy dream so many years ago.
Strangers in an airport
Searching for a word to break the ice.

Holding you again
Even for the briefest moment
Made me realize how much i love you still
Wanting you to want me
Still not knowing if you ever will.

Chorus
Seeing you again
Seeing you again
Was the sweetest torture
I may ever know.
Seeing you again
Seeing you again

Made me wish i'd never let you go.

Seeing you again
Running free along the beaches
Where our shadows first
Began to intertwine
Listening to your laughter
Wishing that you love could still be mine.

(repeat chorus)

Did you only come to say
You're sorry
Or give it one more try
Or did you only need to see
There was nothing left for me
Inside worth saving.

Running for your train
You smiled back through the doorway
Like you used to
When our hearts still beat as one
And as i turned away
I knew the lonely days had just begun.

(repeat chorus twice.)

Some say that love is its own
Love is its own reward
But i can't help but believe
There's got to be more.

A man needs a woman
To have and to hold
To love him in body
As well as in soul
I need your desire
Where did the fire go?

I keep trying to sleep
But sleep won't be mine tonight
There's so much sorrow inside
And baby, i don't know why.

I give you your freedom
I give you my love
I give all i have every time that we touch
I don't know, baby,
Maybe i give too much.

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Now i'm lonely in love
Why must i be lonely in love
I'm so lonely in love
Baby why must i be lonely
Why must i be lonely in love.

I know that love carries no
She carries no guarantees
But still i can't seem to
Find a reason that i can believe in
You said to be patient
And give you some room
You said you had changes
You need to work through
But the longer i wait
The farther i feel from you.

(repeat chorus twice)
Baby, you're my one and only
Why do you keep me lonely in love.

Once i loved you and you loved me
We believed our souls were meant to breathe as one
And could never come undone again.

And once i believed that you and i
Were the two that would defy the fickle gods
And win out against the odds
And go on forever more.

But now that you heart has turned away
I must try to find a way to let you go
Even though i know
You will never leave me.
Cause you were my life's one great romance
And i will always see you
Dancing through my dreams
And as hopeless as it seems
I will always love you.

And now if you think
We've said it all
Let the final curtain
Fall on us at last
And just put it in the past
And say our last farewell.