Heels Over Head

Album: Boys Like Girls (2006)
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  • I got your runaway smile in my piggybank, baby
    Gonna cash it right in for a new Mercedes
    You were worth the hundred thousand miles
    But you couldn't stay awhile
    I got your little brown shirt in my bottom drawer, baby
    And your little white socks in the top drawer
    You were always leaving your shit around
    And gone without a sound

    Yeah, I'm the first to fall and the last to know
    Where'd you go?

    Now I'm heels over head
    I'm hangin' upside down
    Thinking how you left me for dead
    California bound

    I got a first class ticket to a night all alone
    And a front row seat up right by the phone
    'Cause you're always on my mind
    And I'm running out of time
    I've got your hair on my pillow and your smell in my sheets
    And it makes me think about you with the sand in your feet
    Is it all you thought it'd be?
    You mean everything to me

    But I'm the first to fall and the last to know
    Where'd you go?

    Now I'm heels over head
    I'm hangin' upside down
    Thinking how you left me for dead
    California bound
    And when you hit the coast
    I hope you think of me
    And how I'm stuck here with the ghost
    Of what we used to be

    You're burnin' bridges, baby
    Burnin' bridges, making wishes
    Yeah, you're burnin' bridges, baby
    Burnin' bridges, making wishes
    You're burnin' bridges, baby
    Burnin' bridges, making wishes
    Yeah, you're burnin' bridges, baby
    Burnin' bridges, making wishes

    You're a chance taker, heartbreaker
    Got me wrapped around your finger
    Chance taker, heartbreaker
    Got me wrapped around your finger

    I got your runaway smile in my piggybank, baby
    Gonna cash it right in for a new Mercedes
    If I drive a hundred thousand miles
    Would you let me stay a while?

    Now I'm heels over head
    I'm hangin' upside-down
    Thinking how you left me for dead
    California bound
    And when you hit the coast
    I hope you think of me
    And how I'm stuck here with the ghost
    Of what we used to be

    Now I'm heels over head
    I'm hangin' upside-down
    Thinking how you left me for dead
    California bound
    And when you hit the coast
    Maybe you'll finally see
    And then you'll turn it all around
    And you'll come back to me Writer/s: Martin Johnson
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • Lucy from Kootingal, AustraliaMm. Why is that? Everybody wants what they can't have, or get hurt trying to get it.
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