Album: Tonight And Forever (2001)

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• Turn out the light
  Just say goodnight
  To yourself
  May I remind you
  When You find you
  Are all alone's when you
  You've got to be strong
  
  That's when they call you in the night
  He's got your picture
  in his mind
  He's got your number
  On a paper at his disposal any time
  
  Is it really true
  Did you save yourself for someone
  Who could love you for you
  So many times we just give it away
  To someone who, simeone who
  You met in a bar
  The back of a car
  And for a moment
  You felt important
  But not in your heart
  Cause my self esteem it's been low
  Go ahaead and count it's been lower than low(er)
  I know the feeling
  Of it stealing
  Life out from under me
  
  Cause i want to learn
  How you save yourself for someone who
  Could love you for you
  So many times we just give it away
  To someone who
  Couldn't even rememeber your name
  
  Could you save yourself
  For someone who
  Loves you for you
  And loves me for me
  Or give it away
  To someone who, someone who
  Could cherish your name
  
  
  Cause I want to learn
  Did you save yourself for someone who
  Loves you for you
  And Loves me for me
  To Give it away to someone who, someone who
  Will cherish your name
  
  
  Cherish Your Name Writer/s: JONNY LANG, MARTI FREDRIKSEN
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Comments: 8

• Niki from Cumming, GaThis has to be the best song ever written, the voice of the singer is so smooth and blends so well with the guitar!!!!! I love this song!!!!
• Jj from Orange County, CaSense Field is the band. They were one of the founders of the "emo" movement and were part of the wave that included Sunny Day Real Estate, The Get Up Kids etc. Senses Fail is a band that came around much later. This song is not exemplary of Sense Field's music which in general is much more energetic.
• Jon from Who Cares?, GaThis band is called Sense Field... Senses Fail is a totally different Band.. I know Sense Field only because this song was featured on Roswell.. not only that Sense Field has broken up. And it couldn't be Senses Fail for that reason also.
• Brittany from Madison, AlThis is my favorite song... it's senses FAIL by the way... not senses FIELD
• Nelson from Memphis, TnYes, Senses Fail is a different band.
• Chris from Melbourne, AustraliaThe song is simply about saving yourself for someone who really loves you, and cares for you. And not throwing your virginity away to some guy who only wants you for sex.
• Mehree from Calgary, CanadaIn response to Becky, 'Senses Fail' is a compleatly diffrent bad, the two have nothing to do with eachother...
• Becky from Brookfield, Ctthe artist is called 'Senses Fail'

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