Nobody's Supposed To Be Here

Album: One Wish (1998)
Charted: 55 2
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  • How did you get here?
    Nobody's supposed to be here
    I've tried that love thing for the last time
    My heart says no, no
    Nobody's supposed to be here
    But you came along and changed my mind (my mind, my mind)

    I've spent all my life
    On a search to find
    The love who'll stay for eternity
    The heaven sent to fulfill my needs
    But when I turned around
    Again love has knocked me down
    My heart got broken
    Oh, it hurt so bad
    I'm sad to say love wins again
    So I place my heart under lock and key (ooh, yeah)
    To take some time and take care of me
    But I turn around and you're standing here

    How did you get here? (get here)
    Nobody's supposed to be here (nobody's supposed to be here)
    I've tried that love thing for the last time (oh)
    My heart says no, no (no)
    Nobody's supposed to be here (nobody's supposed to be here)
    But you came along and changed my mind (my mind, my mind)

    This time I swear I'm through
    But if only you knew
    How many times I've said those words
    Then fall again, when will I ever learn?
    Knowing these tears I've cried
    This lovely black butterfly
    Must take a chance and spread my wings
    Love can make you do some crazy things
    So I place my heart under lock and key (ooh, yeah-yeah)
    To take some time and take care of me (mm-hmm)
    But I turn around and you're standing here
    How did you?
    Standing here
    How did you get here? (Yeah, yeah)

    No, nobody
    No, no, no, no, no, no (shoo-do-doo, nobody's supposed to be here)
    Nobody
    No, no, no, no, no
    No, no, no, no, no
    No

    How did you get here?
    Nobody's supposed to be here (yeah, oh yeah)
    I've tried that love thing for the last time (I tried it, over and over)
    My heart says no, no (no, no, no, no)
    Nobody's supposed to be here (nobody's supposed to be here)
    But you came along and you changed my mind (came along and you changed my mind, my mind)

    How did you get here? (I'm not supposed to love)
    Nobody's supposed to be here (I'm not supposed to care anymore)
    I've tried that love thing for the last time
    My heart says no, no (no, no, no, no, no)
    Nobody's supposed to be here (no, no, no, no, no)
    But you came along and changed my mind Writer/s: Anthony Schapell Crawford, Montell Jordan
    Publisher: CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn this day in 1998 {November 29th} "Nobody's Supposed To Be Here" by Deborah Cox peaked at #2 {for 8 weeks} on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart, the first six weeks it was at #2, the #1 record for those six weeks was "I'm Your Angel" by R. Kelly and Celine Dion, and for weeks seven and eight, "Have You Ever?" by Brandy was in the top spot...
    Also at the time the song was in it's fifth of fourteen weeks at #1 on Hot Black Singles chart...
    Between 1995 and 2008 the Toronto, Canada native had twelve records on the Hot Black Singles chart, three made the Top 10 with two reaching #1, the above "Nobody's Supposed To Be Here" and "We Can't Be Friends"* for one week in October of 1999...
    Deborah Cox celebrated her 45th birthday four months ago on July 13th, 2019...
    * "We Can't Be Friends" was a duet with R.L. from Next...
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