A Letter to Elise

Album: Wish (1992)
Charted: 28
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  • Oh, Elise, it doesn't matter what you say
    I just can't stay here every yesterday
    Like keep on acting out the same
    The way we act out
    Every way to smile, forget
    And make-believe we never needed
    Any more than this
    Any more than this

    Oh, Elise, it doesn't matter what you do
    I know I'll never really get inside of you
    To make your eyes catch fire
    The way they should
    The way the blue could pull me in
    If they only would, if they only would
    At least I'd lose this sense of sensing
    Something else that hides away
    From me and you, they're worlds to part
    With aching looks and breaking hearts
    And all the prayers your hands can make
    Oh, I just take as much as you can throw
    And then throw it all away
    Oh, I throw it all away
    Like throwing faces at the sky
    Like throwing arms 'round yesterday
    I stood and stared
    Wide-eyed in front of you
    And the face I saw looked back the way I wanted to
    But I just can't hold my tears away the way you do
    Elise, believe I never wanted this
    I thought this time I'd keep all of my promises
    I thought you were the girl I always dreamed about
    But I let the dream go
    And the promises broke and make-believe ran out

    So, Elise, it doesn't matter what you say
    I just can't stay here every yesterday
    Like keep on acting out the same
    The way we act out
    Every way to smile, forget
    And make-believe we never needed
    Any more than this
    Any more than this

    And every time I try to pick it up
    Like falling sand
    As fast as I pick it up
    It runs away through my clutching hands
    But there's nothing else I can really do
    There's nothing else I can really do
    There's nothing else I can really do
    At all Writer/s: Boris Williams, Perry Bamonte, Porl Thompson, Robert James Smith, Simon Johnathon Gallup
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Simone from AustraliaLove this song, sing it all the time, stuck in my head forever.
  • Tony from San Diego, CaUtter joy and heartache rolled into one. Hurts so good
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