Album: What We Saw From The Cheap Seats (2012)
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  • How can I forget your love?
    How can I never see you again?
    There's a time and place
    For one more sweet embrace
    And there's a time, ooh
    When it all, ooh
    Went wrong

    I guess you know by now
    That we will meet again somehow

    Oh, oh, oh, oh baby
    How can I begin again?
    How can I try to love someone new?
    Someone who isn't you
    How can our love be true?
    When I'm not, ooh
    I'm not over you

    I guess you know by now
    That we will meet again somehow

    Time can come and take away the pain
    But I just want my memories to remain
    To hear your voice
    To see your face
    There's not one moment I'd erase
    You are a guest here now

    So baby
    How can I forget your love?
    How can I never see you again?
    How can I ever know why some stay, others go?
    When I don't, ooh
    I don't want you to go

    I guess I know by now
    That we will meet again somehow

    Time can come and wash away the pain
    But I just want my mind to stay the same
    To hear your voice
    To see your face
    There's not one moment I'd erase
    You are a guest here now

    So baby
    How can I forget your love?
    How can I never see you again? Writer/s: REGINA SPEKTOR
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Vetriano from Nyprofound sadness and loss in the lyrics, feels like the partner has passed away. You can read the lyrics or listen to the song that way- think of a long, loving marriage where a spouse died and the survivor does not want to move on.
  • Ma Steel from PaI feel like this song is about a love that died. It just resonates with that kind of loss… “you were a guest here…” on earth.
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