If You Leave
by OMD

Album: Pretty in Pink soundtrack (1986)
Charted: 48 4
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  • If you leave, don't leave now
    Please don't take my heart away
    Promise me just one more night
    Then we'll go our separate ways
    We always had time on our sides
    Now it's fading fast
    Every second every moment
    We've got to--we've gotta make it last

    I touch you once I touch you twice
    I won't let go at any price
    I need you now like I needed you then
    You always said we'd still be friends someday

    If you leave I won't cry
    I won't waste one single day
    But if you leave don't look back
    I'll be running the other way
    Seven years went under the bridge
    Like time was standing still
    Heaven knows what happens now
    You've got to--you've gotta say you will

    I touch you once I touch you twice
    I won't let go at any price
    I need you now like I needed you then
    You always said we'd meet again

    I touch you once I touch you twice
    I won't let go at any price
    I need you now like I needed you then
    You always said we'd still be friends

    I touch you once I touch you twice
    I won't let go at any price
    I need you now like I needed you then
    You always said we'd meet again someday

    If you leave
    Oh if you leave
    Oh if you leave
    Don't look back
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Comments: 1

  • Tony from NyFirst commenter? This is one of the highlights of the 80s, in my opinion. Perfect pop song!
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