Try Sleeping With a Broken Heart

Album: The Element of Freedom (2009)
Charted: 7 27
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  • Let's do it, baby
    Let's do it, baby
    Let's do it, do it

    Even if you were a million miles away
    I can still feel you in my bed
    Near me, touch me, feel me
    And even at the bottom of the sea
    I could still hear inside my head
    Telling me, touch me, feel me
    And all the time, you were telling me lies, ay

    So tonight, I'm gonna find a way to make it without you
    Tonight, I'm gonna find a way to make it without you
    I'm gonna hold on to the times that we had
    Tonight, I'm gonna find a way to make it without you

    Have you ever tried sleeping with a broken heart?
    Well you could try sleeping in my bed
    Lonely, own me, nobody ever shut it down like you
    You wore the crown, you made my body feel Heaven-bound
    Why don't you hold me? Need me
    I thought you told me, you'd never leave me
    Looking in the sky I could see your face
    Then I knew right where I fit in
    Take me, make me
    You know that I'll always be in love with you
    Right, 'til the end, ohh

    So tonight, I'm gonna find a way to make it without you
    Tonight, I'm gonna find a way to make it without you
    I'm gonna hold on to the times that we had
    Tonight, I'm gonna find a way to make it without you

    Anybody could've told you right from the start it's 'bout to fall apart
    So rather than hold on to a broken dream I'll just hold on to love
    And I could find a way to make it, don't hold on too tight
    I'll make it without you tonight

    So tonight, I'm gonna find a way to make it without you
    Tonight, I'm gonna find a way to make it without you (oh, hold on)
    I'm gonna hold on to the times that we had
    Tonight, I'm gonna find a way to make it without you

    Oh, Lord

    Have you ever tried? Have you ever
    Living without my love
    Have you ever tried, have you ever tried?

    La, la
    La-la-la-la-la, la
    La, la-la-la-la-la-la-la
    La-la, la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
    La-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la Writer/s: Alicia Augello-Cook, Jeff Bhasker, Patrick Reynolds
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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  • Chlo from California, Cabeautiful song
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