Love You Back

Album: yet to be titled (2023)
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  • I'm in love with the thought of you when you were twenty-two
    My pair of boots and your Converse shoes
    Kicked off by the front door
    Sipping cheap tequila on the front porch
    I'm in love with the history of you and me
    How we used to be, the king and queen
    Of this small town, young and wild
    Something from the nineties on the dashboard dial

    But oh, the memory ain't enough
    'Cause I can look but I can't touch

    A memory can't kiss you outside of your mama's house
    Midnight rain on a Chevy hood
    A memory can't hold you in a Sarasota sunrise
    Even though you wish it would
    All it's gonna do is make you lose sleep at night
    Wake up and leave you in the past
    You can love a memory
    But a memory can't love you back

    Just when I think I found someone new, it comes out the blue
    It kills my buzz and it kills the mood
    Those two years, they're long gone
    And I should be moving on

    But oh, a memory'll make it hard
    It's time I realize it don't deserve my heart (heart), oh

    A memory can't kiss you outside of your mama's house
    Midnight rain on a Chevy hood
    A memory can't hold you in a Sarasota sunrise
    Even though you wish it would
    All it's gonna do is make you lose sleep at night
    Wake up and leave you in the past
    You can love a memory
    But a memory can't love you back

    A memory can't tell you how you make it feel
    In the moonlight glow of a shotgun seat
    A memory can't pick out a diamond ring
    And say I do under an old oak tree
    All it's gonna do is make you lose sleep at night
    Wake up and leave you in the past
    You can love a memory
    But a memory can't love you back
    Can't love you back

    You can love a memory
    But a memory can't love you back Writer/s: Emily Weisband, James McNair, Lindsay Rimes
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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