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Artist: Crown The Empire
Canonical path: /crown-the-empire/payphone
Related lyric paths: 6
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Payphone
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Payphone
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(I'm at a payphone) trying to call home
All of my change I spent on you
(Where have the times gone?), baby, it's all wrong
Where are the plans we made for two?
Yeah, I, I know it's hard to remember
The people we used to be...
It's even harder to picture
That you're not here next to me
You say it's too late to make it
But is it too late to try?
And in our time that you wasted
All of our bridges burned down
I've wasted my nights
You turned out the lights (turned out the lights)
Now I'm paralyzed
Still stuck in that time
When we called it love
But even the sun sets in paradise
Yeeeeeeeeeah
(I'm at a payphone) trying to call home
All of my change I spent on you
(Where have the times gone?), baby, it's all wrong
Where are the plans we made for two?
If "happy ever after" did exist (did exist)
I would still be holding you like this
All those fairy tales are full of shit
One more fucking love song, I'll be sick
Oh, you turned your back on tomorrow
'Cause you forgot yesterday
I gave you my love to borrow
But you just gave it away
You can't expect me to be fine
I don't expect you to care
I know I've said it before
But all of our bridges burned down
I've wasted my nights
You turned out the lights
Now I'm paralyzed
Still stuck in that time
When we called it love
But even the sun sets in paradise
(I'm at a payphone) trying to call home
All of my change I spent on you
(Where have the times gone?), baby, it's all wrong
Where are the plans we made for two?
If "happy ever after" did exist (did exist)
I would still be holding you like this
All those fairy tales are full of shit
One more fucking love song, I'll be sick
Now baby don't hang up
So I can tell you what you need to know
Baby I'm begging you just please don't go
So I cant tell you what you need to know
So I can tell you what you need to fucking know
Ring ring, motherfucker!
(I'm at a payphone) trying to call home
All of my change I spent on you
(Where have the times gone?), baby, it's all wrong
Where are the plans we made for two?
If "happy ever after" did exist (did exist)
I would still be holding you like this
All those fairy tales are full of shit
One more fucking love song, I'll be sick
I'm at a payphone...
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