Just So You Know

Album: Right Where You Want Me (2006)
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  • I shouldn't love you but I want to
    I just can't turn away
    I shouldn't see you but I can't move
    I can't look away

    I shouldn't love you but I want to
    I just can't turn away
    I shouldn't see you but I can't move
    I can't look away

    And I don't know
    How to be fine when I'm not
    'Cause I don't know
    How to make a feeling stop

    Just so you know
    This feeling's takin' control of me
    And I can't help it
    I won't sit around
    I can't let him win now

    Thought you should know
    I've tried my best to let go
    Of you but I don't want to
    I just gotta say it all before I go
    Just so you know

    It's gettin' hard to be around you
    There's so much I can't say
    Do you want me to hide the feelings
    And look the other away

    And I don't know
    How to be fine when I'm not
    'Cause I don't know
    How to make a feeling stop

    Just so you know
    This feeling's takin' control of me
    And I can't help it
    I won't sit around
    I can't let him win now

    Thought you should know
    I've tried my best to let go
    Of you but I don't want to
    I just gotta say it all before I go
    Just so you know

    This emptiness is killin' me
    And I'm wonderin' why I've waited so long
    Lookin' back I realize it was always there
    Just never spoken

    I'm waitin' here
    Been waitin' here

    Just so you know
    This feeling's takin' control of me
    And I can't help it
    I won't sit around
    I can't let him win now

    Thought you should know
    I've tried my best to let go
    Of you but I don't want to
    Just gotta say it all before I go
    Just so you know, just so you know

    Thought you should know
    I've tried my best to let go
    Of you but I don't want to
    Just gotta say it all before I go
    Just so you know, just so you know Writer/s: ADAM WATTS, ANDREW CREIGHTON DODD, DORY LOBEL, JESSE MCCARTNEY
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Walt Disney Music Company
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 6

  • Adelle from Arlington Virginia Hey Jesse mc. Cartney you are amazing.
  • Adelle from Arlington Virginia Hey Jesse mc cartney you are so cutie
  • Madi from ???, AustraliaI like this song, it is really shows what Jesse is feeling not like some other song where they just make things up. It its really deep and I love it, for me this song has a very high rating.
  • Madi from ???, AustraliaI like this song, it is really shows what Jesse is feeling not like some other song where they just make things up. It its really deep and I love it, for me this song has a very high rating.
  • Jaclyn from Buffalo, NyJesse has a tendency to be relatively upfront in his lyrics, using little metaphorical imagery. So, it is clear and obvious what the song is about. However, I might say that it is deeper than what it has been given credit to. I would argue that the lyric expresses remorse over a love that he has lost "I can't let him win now," being a phrase repeated in the chorus. "I shouldn't love you, but I want to." I believe that this may be that Jesse lost a love to another guy and that he isn't comfortable with the newly established relationship. So, I give this song a relatively high rating because it is a personable point of view; it conveys emotion that most people feel at one point in their lives.
  • Ashlynne from Candor, NcIn the song Jesse really likes a girl but he know that she will never feel for him the way he feels for her!
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