Not Gonna Be The One

Album: Greatest Hits (1992)
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  • Here we are in a room full of broken hearts
    Lovers once, but in the end, we never really had a chance
    You wanted to be free, now that you're lonely, you want me back again

    But I'm not gonna be the one that you call
    Not gonna take the fall, for all your indecision
    Not gonna put my back to the wall
    Not gonna take the fall, for all the pain you've given

    Me and you, we were a dream that never could come true
    In time you'll see, that our love was never really meant to be
    And if you discover, you need a lover, someone to break your fall

    But I'm not gonna be the one that you call
    Not gonna take the fall, for all your indecision
    Not gonna put my back to the wall
    Not gonna take the fall, for all the pain you've given

    You wanted to be free, now that you're lonely, you want me at your arm

    But I'm not gonna be the one that you call
    Not gonna take the fall, for all your indecision
    Not gonna put my back to the wall
    Not gonna take the fall, for all the pain you've given
    Writer/s: SETH A SWIRSKY, SETH SWIRSKY
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Valentin from Vienna, AustriaMaybe that 'magic thing in the demo' was the GIBB MAGIC?
    I for one could have sworn it was written by (one of) the Gibbs the first time I listened to it. A magic song IT IS. ^_^
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