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Artist: Foreigner
Canonical path: /foreigner/only-heavens-knows
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Only Heavens knows
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Only Heavens knows
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My intentions are good
My heart's in the right place now
You see I wanna be good to you baby
But sometimes I just don't know how
And the hand of fate
Reaches out once more
And pulls me through that gate, ah
Like one hundred times before
Ooh, there are the nights
When things just work out right
No one could be as close as you and me
Then it all breaks down
And we can't find that common ground
That's not the way, the way it oughta be babe
Oh no
Why do we laugh, why do we cry?
Why do we feel this pain inside?
Only heaven knows, only heaven knows
In this game of hit and miss
How long can we go on like this?
Only heaven knows, only heaven knows
But if we threw it all away
It's somethin' we'd regret someday
Oh-ooh, heaven knows
Why do we do these foolish things?
Only heaven knows
My intentions are good
My actions are hard to explain
I get misunderstood, sometimes
There's nobody but me to blame
I've gotta speak my mind
And deal with the situation
Open the lines, yeah
The lines of communication
Ooh, there are the nights
We really get it right
Makin' love, endlessly
And then there are the days
We go our separate ways
It's like there's nothin' left of you and me babe
Woah-ooh no, nothin' left of you and me
Why do we laugh, why do we cry?
Why do we feel this pain inside?
Only heaven knows, only heaven knows
In this game of hit and miss
How long can we go on like this?
Only heaven knows, only heaven knows
But if we threw it all away
It's somethin' we'd regret someday
Oh-ooh, heaven knows
Why do we laugh, why do we cry?
Only heaven knows, only heaven knows
Why do we feel this pain inside?
Only heaven knows, only heaven knows
But if we threw it all away
It's somethin' we'd regret someday
No woah-ooh woah-ooh oh-ooh
Why do we do these foolish things?
Only heaven knows
Only heaven knows
You see I wanna be good to you baby
Heaven knows
Why do we feel this pain inside?
You see I wanna be good to you baby
Heaven knows, oh yeah
How long, how long, can we go on like this?
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Foreigner performs "Only Heavens knows", and this lyric page sits inside the Foreigner catalog on LyroVerse.
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