I Can Change

Album: This Is Happening (2010)
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  • Tell me a line
    Make it easy for me
    Open your arms
    Dance with me until I feel all right

    It's good in the dark
    Good in the dark
    But into the lover's light
    Here comes another fight

    So ring the alarm
    Ring the alarm
    Bar me and hold me and cling to my arm

    Here it comes
    Here it comes

    And what you're asking me now
    Disastrous now
    Hoping and hoping and hoping the feeling goes away (away)

    Never change, never change, never change, never change
    Never change, never change, never change
    This is why I fell in love

    Never change, never change, never change, never change
    Never change, never change, never change
    That's just who I fell in love with (in love)

    Oh this is the time
    The very best time
    So give me a line
    And take me home
    Take me over

    But dashing the hopes
    Dashing the hopes
    And smashing the pride
    The morning's got you on the ropes, oh

    And love is a murderer
    Love is a murderer
    But if she calls you tonight
    Everything is all right
    Yeah, we know

    And love is a curse
    Shoved in a hearse
    Love is an open book to a verse
    Of your bad poetry
    And this is coming from me

    But I can change, I can change, I can change, I can change
    I can change, I can change, I can change
    If it helps you fall in love (in love)

    I can change, I can change, I can change, I can change
    I can change, I can change, I can change
    If it helps you fall in love (in love)

    Turn on the light
    Make it easy for me
    Fill the divide
    Fumble in the kitchen 'til it's right
    What an awful sight

    But there's love in your eyes
    Love in your eyes
    Love in your eyes
    But maybe that's just what your lover finds all night

    And I can change, I can change, I can change, I can change
    I can change, I can change, I can change
    If it helps you fall in love (in love)

    And I can change, I can change, I can change, I can change
    I can change, I can change, I can change
    If it helps you fall in love (in love)

    And I can change, I can change, I can change, I can change
    I can change, I can change, I can change
    If it helps you feel real love (real love)

    And I can change, I can change, I can change, I can change
    I can change, I can change, I can change
    If it helps you fall in love (in love) Writer/s: James Jeremiah Murphy, Patrick Mahoney
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Tony from San DiegoLove this song and album. James Murphy is the spokesman of Gen X, not Mr.Cobain. Can't believe there aren't more comments on this song.
  • Caitlyn from Royersford, PaRolling stone named this song #17 on it's list of the best songs of 2010, the album(This is Happening) #10 on its best albums list, and the video for drunk girls on the best videos list
    Alternative Press named the album as one of the 10 best of the year
    And the album came in at #3 on metacritic.com's best of the year countdown.

    Not bad for an aging hipster!
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