To Be Loved

Album: 30 (2021)
Charted: 32
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  • I built a house for love to grow
    I was so young that it was hard to know
    I'm as lost now as I was back then
    Always make a mess of everything
    It's about time that I face myself
    All I do is bleed into someone else
    Painting walls with all my secret tears
    Filling rooms with all my hopes and fears

    But oh my, oh my
    I'll never learn if I never leap
    I'll always yearn if I never speak

    To be loved and love at the highest count
    Means to lose all the things I can't live without
    Let it be known that I will choose to lose
    It's a sacrifice but I can't live a lie
    Let it be known, let it be known that I tried

    I'm so afraid but I'm open wide
    I'll be the one to catch myself this time
    Trying to learn to lean in to it all
    Ain't it funny how the mighty fall?
    Looking back I don't regret a thing
    Yeah, I took some bad turns that I am owning
    I'll stand still and let the storm pass by
    Keep my heart safe 'til the time feels right

    But oh my, oh my
    I'll never learn if I never leap
    I'll always yearn if I never speak

    To be loved and love at the highest count
    Means to lose all the things I can't live without
    Let it be known that I will choose to lose
    It's a sacrifice but I can't live a lie
    Let it be known

    Let it be known that I cried for you
    Even started lying to you
    What a thing to do
    All because I wanted

    To be loved and love at the highest count
    Means to lose all the things I can't live without
    Let it be known, known, known
    That I will choose, I will lose
    It's a sacrifice but I can't live a lie
    Let it be known

    Let it be known that I tried, that I tried
    Let it be known that I tried Writer/s: Adele Laurie Blue Adkins, Tobias MacDonald Jesso
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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