One-Eighty by Summer

Album: Where You Want to Be (2004)
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  • Go on, just say it
    You need me like a bad habit
    One that leaves you defenseless, dependent, and alone
    Go on, just say it
    (Are you afraid to say what you want to, tell me you want to?)
    You need me like a bad habit
    One that leaves you defenseless, dependent, and alone
    (Are you afraid to say what you want to, tell me you want to?)

    Well, I hold my tongue, use it to assess
    The damage from way back when it mattered
    But nothing seems important anymore
    We're just protecting ourselves from our self
    And I don't think I'll ever come back down
    I don't think I'll ever come back down
    I don't think I'll ever come back down
    I don't think I'll ever come back down
    I don't think I'll ever come back down
    I don't think I'll ever come back down
    I don't think I'll ever come back...

    Are you ashamed to say what you want to, tell me you want to?
    Are you ashamed to say what you want to, tell me you want to?
    Go on, just say it
    Are you ashamed to say what you want to, tell me you want to?
    Go on, just say it
    Go on, just say it
    Are you ashamed to say what you want to, tell me you want to?
    Go on, just say it

    I'm making the difference
    It just seems pointless
    With all the obvious lines all out of focus
    Why can't you just be happy?
    Why can't you just be happy?
    And I don't think I'll ever come back down
    I don't think I'll ever come back down
    I don't think I'll ever come back down
    I don't think I'll ever come back down
    I don't think I'll ever come back down
    I don't think I'll ever come back down
    I don't think I'll ever come back...

    (Just come back)
    (Just come back)
    Go on, just say it
    (Just come back)
    (Just come back)
    (Just come back)
    (Just come back)
    Go on, just say it
    (Just come back)
    (Just come back)
    Well, I'll just say it
    (Just come back)
    (Just come back)
    I'll just say it
    (Just come back)
    (Just come back)
    I need you defenseless, dependent, and alone
    (Just come back)
    (Just come back)
    She says "Live up to your first impression" (Just come back, just come back)
    Well, my best side was your worst invention (Just come back, just come back)
    Why can't you live without the attention? (Just come back, just come back)
    Why can't you live without the attention? (Just come back, just come back)
    She says "Live up to your first impression" (Just come back, just come back)
    Well, my best side was your worst invention (Just come back, just come back)
    Can't you live without the attention? (Just come back, just come back)
    Why can't you live without the attention? (Just come back, just come back)
    She says "Live up to your first impression" (I'll just say it)
    Well, my best side was your worst invention (I'll just say it)
    Why can't you live without the attention? (I need you defenseless, dependent, and alone)
    Why can't you live without the attention?
    She says "Live up to your first impression" (I'll just say it)
    Well, my best side was your worst invention (I'll just say it)
    Why can't you live without the attention? (I need you defenseless, dependent, and alone)
    Why can't you live without the attention?
    Why can't you live? (Defenseless, dependent)
    Why can't you live? (Defenseless, dependent)
    Why can't you live without, live without? (Defenseless, dependent)
    Why can't you live? (Defenseless, dependent)
    Why can't you live? (Defenseless, dependent)
    Why can't you live without, live without? (Defenseless, dependent, defenseless dependent) Writer/s: Adam Burbank Lazzara, Edward Reyes, Frederick Paul Mascherino, Mark O'Connell, Matthew A. Rubano
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 8

  • Ervo from Muncie, Inthis song is my favorite of Where You Want To be, its like drenched in emotion. but yeah sound s like a guy is in a relationship with a girl and there both very...well...dramatic. baiscilly what Nina said.
  • Nina from All Over, OhI think they are both glutton for punishment and they like the drama troubles of relationship produce. Maybe the guy less than the girl.
  • Dani from Chicago, Ilgirl is dependent, can't live without the dude. and she constantly need attention. i know a lot of my friends are like that with their boyfriends. and the title of the song is amazing cause it represents that ed reyes was supposed to be 180 by summer =D
  • Faramarz from Sterling, VaNo i'd have to say its about a guy and a girl who have broken up but he still wants her. and in actuality she still wants him too. shes just too proud to say it. thats why he says 'are you ashamed...' also she kinda wants the guy she fell in love with but hes telling her he cant be that same guy. they can still work it out but he cant 'live up to his first impression' he says that his 'best side was her worst invention' and then also says why cant you 'just come back'. why do you have to make it about you. 'why cant you live wihtout the attention?' he also says how he needs her defenseless and dependent and how she needs to stop being so proud and just kinda let herself go to him. ya dig?? maybe not. my take on it.
  • Cecily from Redding, CaGod, how many times have you wished a man would have lived up to his first impression? This is one of my favorite TBS songs. The two people in this song are equally screwed up.
  • Kim from Someplace, NyThe title is actually 'One-Eighty By Summer', not 'One-Eighty Summer'. But i agree with Amina...its about a boy who is frustrated with his needy girlfriend. She is never happy, though he tries desperatly to please her, including changing himself. But he does it all because he believes he needs her.
  • Kevin from Mansfield, CtI thought it was about.. a girl that keeps wanting the guys attention... Yea basicly what amina said.. ---she said live up to your first impression
    well my best side was your worst invention
    why cant u live without the attention--
  • Horatio from Perth, Australiahe says that the girl needs him like a bad habit. He's telling her to just admit that she needs him
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