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Artist: Cheap Trick
Canonical path: /cheap-trick/if-it-takes-a-lifetime
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If It Takes a Lifetime
Read If It Takes a Lifetime lyrics by Cheap Trick on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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If It Takes a Lifetime
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If you'll singing my name
What gives you the right?
Couldn't take the place
To be with you tonight, yeah
Well, I'm falling asleep
While I dream all night
No matter where I go, yeah
Oh, can't you see what you're doing to me?
CHORUS
'Cause all I want to do (all I want to do)
Is just be with you (if it takes a lifetime)
If it takes a lifetime (I'll wait for you)
I'll wait for you
All I want to do (all I want to do)
Is just be with you (if it takes a lifetime)
If it takes a lifetime (I'll wait for you)
I'll wait for you
Get closer, close to me
Got stories I can't speak
Got secrets I can't keep
Can't hide what you're doing to me, yeah
CHORUS
Now all I want to do (all I want to do)
Is just be with you (if it takes a lifetime)
If it takes a lifetime (I'll wait for you)
I'll wait for you
All I want to do (all I want to do)
Is just be with you (if it takes a lifetime)
I can wait a lifetime (I'll wait for you)
Oh, I've had better days
But I would never wait so long
When I fall asleep
While I dream all night
No matter where I go
?? what you're doing to me
I sleep awake
All day, all night
And I dream of you
I dream of you
But I can't believe it's true, yeah
CHORUS
'Cause all I want to do (all I want to do)
Is just be with you (if it takes a lifetime)
If it takes a lifetime (I'll wait for you)
I'll wait for you
All I want to do (all I want to do)
Is just be with you (if it takes a lifetime)
I can wait a lifetime (I'll wait for you)
??, my love
Oh, I've had better days
But I would never wait so long
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