Tears Dry

Album: Lioness: Hidden Treasures (2011)
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  • All I can ever be to you
    Is the darkness we once knew
    And this deep regret I had to get accustomed to
    Once it felt so right
    Anticipation at its height
    Lived and waited in hotel rooms late at night

    I knew I hadn't met my match
    With every moment we could snatch
    I don't know why I let myself get so attached
    It's my responsibility
    And you don't owe nothing to me
    But to cut myself off I had no capacity

    He walks away
    The sun goes down
    He takes the day but I'm grown
    And in your grey
    In this cool shade
    My tears dry on their own (tears dry on their own)

    I don't understand
    Why do I stress a man
    When there's so many better things than him at hand
    We could have never had it all
    We had to hit a wall
    And this is inevitable withdrawal
    Even if I stop wanting you
    A perspective pushes through
    I'll be some next man's other woman soon

    I cannot play myself again
    I should just be my own best friend
    Not fuck myself in the head with stupid men

    He walks away
    The sun goes down
    He takes the day, but I'm grown
    And in your grey
    In this cool shade
    My tears dry on their own (tears dry on their own)

    Wish I could say no regrets
    And no emotional debt
    And as we kiss goodbye
    The sun behind you sets
    So we are history
    Your shadow covers me
    The sky above
    A blaze that only lovers see

    He walks away
    The sun goes down
    He takes the day, but I'm grown
    And in your grey
    In this cool shade
    My tears dry on their own (tears dry on their own)

    He walks away
    The whole sun goes down
    He takes the day, but I'm grown
    Baby, in your grey
    In this cool shade
    My tears dry on their own (tears dry on their own)

    Yeah, leave your grey to shade
    My tears dry on their own (tears dry on their own)

    In your grey
    In this cool shade
    My tears dry on their own (tears dry on their own)

    In your grey
    In this cool shade
    My tears dry on their own (tears dry on their own) Writer/s: Amy Winehouse, Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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  • Matthew from Laporte, Inmay dear amy rest in peace now
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