KWABS LYRICS
album: "Love + War" (2015)
Fight For Love
I've never thought it before, now it's all I can see
I don't get no reward, without trading in cruelty
You're asking to suffer, oh, why?
I'll never put the two things together
Might see heaven tonight, might get turned away
There's only one that you want, but they're one in the same
People want each other, oh
But I'll never put the two things together
Why would you fight for love?
Why would you pay to hurt yourself?
There's still nothing to hold onto
But your pride
Why would you fight for love?
Why can't you fight for something else?
There's still nothing to hold onto
But your pride, oh
You're faithful as hell to what you never had
Walking the streets, throwing good, often bad
When I could be someone for you
Somebody who will hold you together
I give what I can, might be too much
I'll give what I need, I’ll give you love
And all I'm asking
Is for you to put my whole world together
Why would you fight for love?
Why would you pay to hurt yourself?
There's still nothing to hold onto
But your pride
Why would you fight for love?
Why can't you fight for something else?
There's still nothing to hold onto
But your pride, oh
Might see heaven
You might get turned away
There's still nothing to hold onto
But why would I, why would I go that way?
Why would I fight for love?
Why would I pay to hurt myself?
Yeah, there's still nothing to hold onto
But your pride, yeah
Why would I fight for love?
Why can't I fight for something else?
There's still nothing to hold onto
But your pride
Writer(s): Francis White
Copyright: Kobalt Music Services Ltd. Kms
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Walk
Gotta slow up, gotta shake this high
Gotta take a minute just to ease my mind
'Cause if I don't walk then I'll get caught out
And I'll be falling all the way down
(Hundred, hundred, hundred) hundred headlights making me blind
All of your pleasures catching my eye
If I jump once then I never think twice
But your temptations make me stay another night
And my senses only lie to me, lie to me
I don't know how I feel so raw to me, raw to me
I gotta check myself before I get what I want
Find out it's not what I thought it was
And you know I
[Chorus:]
Gotta slow up, gotta shake this high
Gotta take a minute just to ease my mind
'Cause if I don't walk then I'll get caught out
And I'll be falling all the way down
Turn my head and shut my eyes
Doesn't even matter if I'm wrong or right
'Cause if I don't walk I'll keep myself around
And I'll be falling all the way down
Tell myself leave, while I'm still strong
Going on back till I'm 10 miles gone
And when the road stops I'm gonna keep on
Until I end up in the place that I belong
But the pressure's pushing me back again
Telling me not to pretend
There's any use even trying to get you out my head
So I lift my feet off the ground
And I'm gonna walk right up
[Chorus]
Won't get caught in the old fly trap
Run away, run away, never come back
No way I'm going down like that
No, no, run away, run away
Won't get caught in the old fly trap
(I can't get caught up again)
Run away, run away, never come back
No way I'm going down like that
(No way, no way)
No, no, run away, run away
[Chorus]
I'm better walk now
I'm better walk now, yeah
No, no, no
Better walk, yeah
Yeah.
No, no, no, no, no
Writer(s): Jonny Lattimer, Kwabena Adjepong
Copyright: Covered Infinities Ltd., Emi Music Publishing Ltd., Temperamental Music
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My Own
Fall into me, I got you now
I won't give up, never let you down
Let's get it straight, it's time to choose
I came to play, don't play to lose
You're the next to me
Now can get in the change
I've got the key, latch out the cage
But I want you all for my own
I don't need no other love
There can be no other love
You don't feel no other love
What if I break into your heart?
Open the lactic gone that you got?
What if I hope, and never let it go?
Could you turn around, and say no?
What if I step around out of time?
Could I be got to your mind?
'Cause I want to be in your love alone
I want you all for my own
Put your heart on me tonight
I want you all for my own
Turn your shadows into light
Drop it off, take a trip
Leave the world, that can wreck a ship
Just you and I, no passengers
We can take it off
Every go fast enough
You got all of me, don't love to spare
To much to miss, not enough to share
I want you all for my own
I don't need no other love
There can be no other love
You don't feel no other love
What if I break into your heart?
Open the lactic gone that you got?
What if I hope, and never let it go?
Could you turn around, and say no?
What if I step around out of time?
Could I be got to your mind?
'Cause I want to be in your love alone
I want you all for my own
Put your heart on me tonight
I want you all for my own
Turn your shadows into light
I want you all for my own
Gotta feel to [?]
I want you all for my own
I don't need no other love
There can be no other love
Never believe no other love
'Cause you don't feel no other love
I don't need no other love
There can be no other love
You don't feel no other love
What if I break into your heart?
Open the lactic gone that you got?
What if I hope, and never let it go?
Could you turn around, and say no?
What if I step around out of time?
Could I be got to your mind?
'Cause I want to be in your love alone
I want you all for my own
Put your heart on me tonight
I want you all for my own
Turn your shadows into light
I want you all for my own
Gotta feel to [?]
I want you all for my own, my own, my own
What if I break into your heart?
Open the lactic gone that you got?
What if I hope, and never let it go?
Could you turn around, and say no?
What if I step around out of time?
Could I be got to your mind?
'Cause I want to be in your love
I want you all for my own
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Look Over Your Shoulder
I know what you've done,
Doesn't matter how you try to hide it, no
And you can run forever more
But you're only gonna get trapped inside it
Oh, no, oh
You can tryina shout it out in the morning
You can tryina embrace it in the evening
But you should listen long and hard to the warning,
'Cause soon enough that stuff it's gonna get you off
Better look over your shoulder and
Make sure that you're not lost
Better stay out of the shadows
When you wonder far from home
Better look over your shoulder, son
'Cause when you're on your own
It will creep into your head
and it will never let you go
Know where you've been
Giving in to every temptation, oh
And you can leave anyway you want
If you can handle the creation, oh no
You can tryina shout it out in the morning
You can tryina embrace it in the evening
But you should listen long and hard to the warning,
'Cause soon enough that stuff it's gonna get you off
Better look over your shoulder and
Make sure that you're not lost
Better stay out of the shadows
When you wonder far from home
Better look over your shoulder, son
'Cause when you're on your own
It will creep into your head
and it will never let you go
Better look over your shoulder and
Make sure that you're not lost
Better stay out of the shadows
When you wonder far from home
Better look over your shoulder, son
'Cause when you're on your own
It will creep into your head
and it will never let you go
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Perfect Ruin
How long can lovers stand to prove they were right?
Why did I fold my hand?
Why choose another fight?
How long would we have gone to know we shouldn't stay?
I saw you walk the wire
I watched you burn away
And somehow it moved me
Your love has powers over me
Oh what dream is this?
Somehow it towers over me
Send your love to move me
My world has powered over me
In perfect ruins
Somehow it towers over me
Who said we had it all?
Our hearts no longer lie
Who knew the veil would fall?
Who’d guess that we would cry?
What more were we to do?
Two souls who had their fill
Your love it keeps me here
You keep me wondering still
And somehow it moved me
Your love has powers over me
Oh what dream is this?
Somehow it towers over me
Send your love to move me
My world has powered over me
In perfect ruins
Somehow it towers over me
Writer(s): James Wood, Kwabena Adjepong
Copyright: Kobalt Music Services Ltd. Kms, Emi Music Publishing Ltd., Temperamental Music
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Forgiven
Blood and dust
Sweat and smoke
I hold my tongue until I choke
Bring myself to pay for these stones that feel, the hurt we feel
What's a man without a soul waiting for life?
Cut me down,
and watch me bleed
I made you king, so shame on me
Unbroken ground, sacrificed
The lost to found, Fools' Paradise
But I'm a man who needs to hope,
You can't make me hype
I won't let myself be forgiven,
I won't say that I've done wrong
You say I'm stuck in my ways, but out of my mind
Did what I did 'cause I had to survive
I won't let myself be forgiven,
I don't need to justify!
If it's too much for you to take,
Then save yourself and walk away
'Cause we can't stand on shaken stone
Head to head, two hearts alone
We've got nothing else to hold,
But it don't make it right.
I won't let myself be forgiven,
I won't say that I've done wrong
You say I'm stuck in my ways, but out of my mind
Did what I did 'cause I had to survive
I won't let myself be forgiven,
I don't need to justify!
I can't deny, baby you to save me,
What if I need just to fall?
I won't let myself be forgiven,
I won't say that I've done wrong
I've been stuck in my ways, but out of my mind
Did what I did 'cause I had to survive
I won't let myself be forgiven,
I don't need to justify!
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Layback
Sing me song, lend me a rhyme
Pass the time of day
Make me a truth, play with my mind, while my time away
For what it's worse, I didn't ask
I only willed your heart to make it last
Breathe, remember what it's like to layback, remember what it's like to layback
Breathe, remember what it's like to layback, remember what it's like to layback
Soft as you walk, day after day
You keep a man clean
I watch as you sleep, fighting your dreams in your world unseen
Run for the hills, run for you life
Make your escape, make to the skies
Breathe, remember what it's like to layback, remember what it's like to layback
Breathe, remember what it's like to layback, remember what it's like to layback
Here we're standing hand to heart
I can feel no change
There's a fire we need to start
From your love and pain
Here we're standing hand to heart
I can feel no change
There's a fire we need to start
From your love and pain
Breathe, remember what it's like to layback, remember what it's like to layback
Run for the hills, run for your life
Make your escape, make to the skies
Run for the hills, run for your life
Make your escape, and make for the skies
Remember what it's like to layback
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Wrong Or Right
I don't want to be your leader
I don't want to let you down
And I don't even need to see you
Turn your life around
Are you running away?
Cause someone told you never
That you're always gonna tread the wrong road
Are you running away?
Could my love do you better?
Cause there's something that I need to let you know
If you're looking for a place to hide, it's alright
I will always try and look the other way
And if you're ever caught between the lines, wrong or right
We are one and I will always keep you safe
Back into the habit
I see it in your eyes
Gone through all the motions
It's hard to recognize
That you're running away
And and can't escape forever
From the memories you tried to leave behind
We could've found a way
We could've been in it together
So I'm reaching out and here's the reason why
If you're looking for a place to hide, it's alright
I will always try and look the other way
And if you're ever caught between the lines, wrong or right
We are one and I will always keep you safe
Writer(s): Kwabena Adjepong, Christopher Taylor
Copyright: Emi Music Publishing Ltd., Red Lines Songs, Prescription Tracks, Temperamental Music
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Make You Mine
Been doubting my life
Waiting in the waves
Praying for the morning to leave him
Been out of my mind
Visions of the two of us
Crashing through me night after night
Talk about losing faith
I'm only in love for way
And don't tell your boyfriend you're lonely
Long as I'm on this earth
I promise he don't deserve you
I should be your one and only
Gonna make you mine
If it tears me into pieces
If it takes me 'til the end of time
Set your soul on fire, darling
Then you're burning like the Sun
'Til I can see the flames in your eyes
Make you mine, mine
Make you mine, mine, mine
Look in my eyes, tell me
That you shouldn't like a skin
But you're turning me some perfect creature
Oh and you lie
Cause my body will betray you
The more you talk
The more your star will start to show
Talk about losing faith
I'm only in love for way
And don't tell your boyfriend you're lonely
Long as I'm on this earth
I promise he don't deserve you
I should be your one and only
Gonna make you mine
If it tears me into pieces
If it takes me 'til the end of time
Set your soul on fire, darling
Then you're burning like the Sun
'Til I can see the flames in your eyes
Make you mine, mine
Make you mine, mine, mine
Talk about losing faith
You're hiding your heart away
It's only a matter of time
Make you mine, mine, mine
Gonna make you mine
If it tears me into pieces
If it takes me 'til the stars are fallin' out the sky
Gonna make you mine
If it tears me into pieces
If it takes me 'til the end of time
Set your soul on fire, darling
Then you're burning like the Sun
'Til I can see the flames in your eyes
Gonna make you mine
If it tears me into pieces
If it takes me 'til the end of time
Set your soul on fire, darling
Then you're burning like the Sun
'Til I can see the flames in your eyes
Make you mine, mine
Make you mine, mine, mine
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Father Figure
Give me love that's unconditional
And I'll cherish your name
Give me all that you could bear to part with
And I'll give you the same
I've been running in the darkness so long
Tryna rewind the past
Who'd have known it was so hard to move on?
From a love that I never had?
I just need your tender, tender grace
Be my father figure
Help me to remember your face
Be my father figure
My father figure
Give me shelter and release my pain
I've been hurting too long
Teach me how I'm meant to love again
Show me how to be strong
I've been running in the darkness so long
Tryna rewind the past
Who'd have known it was so hard to move on?
From a love that I never had?
I just need your tender, tender grace
Be my father figure
Help me to remember your face
Be my father figure
My father figure
I just need your tender, tender grace
Be my father figure
Help me to remember your face
Be my father figure
My father figure
Give me love, give me love
Give me love, give me love
Give me love, give me love
Give me love, give me love
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Love + War
I hide my tears in the rain
But it doesn't wash off the pain
I find myself at the bridge where we used to kiss
Go see a riot tonight
That the fear starts to strike
And never replies
You should be my ritual, gravitational force
But I get so scared to let you know the devil in my thoughts
Love and war
Can fill your heart 'till it bursts, lift your feet off the earth
Love and war
Will tear the soul full of hate
Save yourself, save yourself while you can
As I breathe back to your door
It's we never met before
The spinning image of the man you taught to love
I know all your moral shows
I've been in line, I've been in line
I'm terrified
You should be my ritual, my gravitational force
But I get so scared to let you know the devil in my thoughts
Love and war
Can fill your heart 'till it bursts, lift your feet off the earth
Love and war
Will tear the soul full of hate
Save yourself, save yourself while you can
You should be my ritual, gravitational force
You should be my ritual, gravitational force
Love and war
Can fill your heart 'till it bursts
Lift your feet off the earth
Love and war
Will tear the soul full of hate
Save yourself, save yourself
Love and war
Can fill your heart 'till it bursts
Lift your feet off the earth
Love and war
Will tear the soul full of hate
Save yourself, save yourself while you can
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Cheating On Me
Lately I, I've been rolling with the tide
It swept me away, to another place
Lord knows, you ain't seen enough of me
Why did I fall asleep, on a love so deep?
I fell apart when I couldn't see
I was cheating on me
Broke my own heart, when I couldn't see
I was cheating on me
Our love is like a fading melody
A song I should've sung, a note I should've reached
I ruined this, then I find hard to describe
Stayed up so many times, I could've been by your side
I fell apart when I couldn't see
I was cheating on me
Broke my own heart, when I couldn't see
I was cheating on me
Why don't you cry?
You live this life
You live this life
I fell apart when I couldn't see
I was cheating on me
Broke my own heart, when I couldn't see
I was cheating on me
Cheating on me
I fell apart when I couldn't see
I was cheating on me
Broke my own heart, when I couldn't see
I was cheating on me
