Album: Timbaland Presents: Shock Value (2007)

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• Ayy, ayy, ayy
  Ayy, ayy, ayy
  
  I'm holdin' on your rope
  Got me ten feet off the ground
  And I'm hearin' what you say
  But I just can't make a sound (ayy, ayy, ayy)
  You tell me that you need me
  Then you go and cut me down, but wait
  You tell me that you're sorry
  Didn't think I'd turn around and say
  
  That it's too late to apologize
  It's too late (ayy, ayy, ayy)
  I said it's too late to apologize
  It's too late (ayy, ayy, ayy)
  Yeah (ayy, ayy, ayy)
  
  I'd take another chance
  Take a fall, take a shot for you, oh
  I need you like a heart needs a beat
  But it's nothin' new, yeah, yeah
  I loved you with a fire red
  Now it's turnin' blue and you say
  Sorry, like the angel
  Heaven let me think was you, but I'm afraid
  
  It's too late to apologize
  It's too late (ayy, ayy, ayy)
  I said it's too late to apologize
  It's too late (ayy, ayy, ayy)
  Whoa, whoa
  
  Ayy, ayy, ayy
  Ayy, ayy, ayy
  
  It's too late to apologize
  It's too late (ayy, ayy, ayy)
  I said it's too late to apologize
  It's too late (ayy, ayy, ayy)
  I said it's too late to apologize, yeah (ayy, ayy, ayy)
  I said it's too late to apologize, yeah
  
  I'm holdin' on your rope
  Got me ten feet off the ground Writer/s: Ryan Tedder
  Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 28

• Muyale Charles from ButalejaGood song u knw
• Jcboston69 from ColoradoApologize is an awesome song, but Timbaland screwed it up badly. His mix sounds like a 5 year-old with two weeks of time with Pro Tools recorded it.
• Paige from EnglandCan anyone please explain the music video? I understand the part in the music studio but why is there a new year’s eve party and why does time randomly freeze. what is going on?!
• Shawn from Green Bay WiI think this is one of the most brilliantly written songs in the past decade. It is full of lines dripping with irony and the paradoxical duplicitousness of love. The fact that he is hanging on her rope could be a good or bad thing. The fact that she cuts him down could be a good or bad thing. The fact that his love was red and now is turning blue could be a good or bad thing. This song perfectly captures the bittersweetness of breaking up with someone you really care about. Brilliant!
• Quynh from Atlanta, Gai refuse to accept or acknowledge timbaland for this song. ALL HE DID WAS ADD THE DAMN "EY EY EY-EY"... ONEREPUBLIC/RYAN TEDDER deserves full credit for this song. the original sounded way better anyway.
• Dick from Rapid City, SdThis song is about transformers and transforming. Transformers robots in disguise. Autobots rollout. You failed me again Starscream
• Ashleigh from ?????, MoFor the last tme this song is NOT about suicide!!! When it says "Holding on your rope..." , it's talking about a guy in a relationship with a girl. He's in the air , feeling good. Then, his girl cuts him down, breaks up with him. But, just when he's walking away, she's like "I'm sorry" but he's like "It's too late to apologize. Thats what the song is about. Have I made it clear enough for everyone?!
• Anthony from Galway, Irelandthis song is about how we all strive for what we believe is right and if we get what we want there is no going back from it for better or worse. it becomes 'too late to apologise'.
• Britni from Nashville, TnWhoever is saying this song is not about someone killing their selves is wrong. This song starts out saying that "I'm holding on a rope, got me 10 feet off the ground" that is suicide, obviously its about a relationship that been through a lot and the girl broke up with the boy and then the boy killed himself and it was too late for her to say she was sorry for all the things that she put him through.
• Popiee from Stratford On Avon, United Kingdomthe song isabout his frien who he fell outwith.his friend killed himself and now its to late for him to apologise
• Swanga from San Antonio, TxMy interpretation is about someone breaking their relationship over a conflict. To me it was over a cheating conflict that the boyfriend had a hard time handling so he ended the relationship and it was "Too late to apologize". The "rope" is the guys attempt to stay with her because he loves her so much and doesn't want to let go but knows he has to.
• Homer from Chicago, Nigeriasorry about using caps locks and saying i swear i did not see the comment guidelines
• Homer from Chicago, NigeriaHEY GUYS JUST STOP HATIN ON TIMBALND CAUSE HE IS BLACK JUST LEAVE HIM ALONE!
• Colin from Guelph, Onwow. this song is the second worse of 2007, passed only by soulja boy. i can't believe that these two songs are hits. mainstream music is on a rapid decline.
• Tynee from Birmingham, Alboth version of the song are but I like Timbaland the best and just becaus the lyrics said "holdin'on the rope, got me ten feet off the ground" don't mean it about suicide.
• Mindi from Mansfield, OhI think you guys are thinking too hard about the meaning of this song. It is clearly about being treated like crap by someone long enough to finally get over it and then telling that person it is "too late to apologize" when they come crying back to you. Who said anything about suicide?
• Samantha from Boone, IaOk let's get the whole suicide thing out of the way shall we... The woman has the man tied down, tied around her finger we could say. He has been tied to her rope for a long time but not any more because all of her nagging and putting him down has made him realize he can not be tied down anymore especially by her twofaced self. Therefore he states 'it's too late to apologize' because she has pushed him too far and is too angry to forgive her for her wrongdoing. I would hate to have this song sung to me, very good song, true, but very sad and depressing.
• Krys from Warner Robins, Gaonerepublic's version is much better. timbaland's version sounds a little more generic and onerepublic's sounds more real (instruments wise)
• Gareth from Lincoln, EnglandThis really is a quality song about the break up of a relationship and the lyrics depict the heartbreak and frustrations brilliantly. The song is certainly not about suicide. Good piece of work though.
• Alease from T-town, Ohthere was a kid in our school system who was a victim of a horrible car accident on Sept 11, and this song was played at this funeral.
  I didn't realize that it was in gym class when i was bobbin my head and singing along last week- I started getting angry stares, and then I was told where they played it and I felt horrible.
  RIP Josiah Natole
• Shaun from Nunya, NcThe rope I think is just a metaphor dealing with him being vulnerable because he loves her... and her cutting the rope down is metaphorical for her hurting him deeply. but this time he isn't gonna let him do it to him again and of course he is saying it is too late to apologize...
  
  I don't really think it has anything to do with suicide, but I may be wrong of course.
  
  And the second verse seems to be talking about how he wants to forgive her, because he loves her, but he doesn't want to be hurt again by her. the metaphor about angel I think is about him thinking she was the one for him, not an angel in the sense of death or suicide.
• Taylor from San Antonio, Txits not about suicide why do people always asume everythings about suicide the line holding on your rope got me ten feet of the ground refers to a relationship im holding on to the relationship but need to let go
• Meredith from Wauwatosa, WiI really like this song. It's very whimsical. For you So You Think You Can Dance fans out there it was Anya and Danny's contemporary dance. I'm a little sad that they were in the bottom, but Danny ended up being the runner-up. Very neat song!
• Kris from Wichita, KsIdk what this song is about but if it's not about suicide then i think the whole Holdin' on your rope, got me ten feet off the ground lyric is talkuing bout when him n his girl is talking and everything she tells him kills him a little bit? idk
• Nick from Melbourne, AustraliaI think this song is about suicide. Note the lines "Holdin' on your rope, got me ten feet off the ground" Could the rope be a noose? Also, commiting suicide would definately make it "too late to apologize"
• Bojana from Sydney, Australiai was told this song is about suicide?
  is this true?
• Matthew from East Brunswick, NjBoth the Timbaland version and the OneRepublic versions are good. Only I like the Timbaland, it has a better rhythmic pattern. Nice work.
• Dee from Indianapolis, InI really love this song. The first time I heard it I was blown away by the lyrics and by it's depth. I don't think that it is ONLY a great breakup song, however that it is poetry in song which reflects our state of mind and or our unrealistic expectations when some of us are in a relationship. It's probably good therapy for most. LOL :))

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