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Artist: Lori Mckenna
Canonical path: /lori-mckenna/if-you-ask
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If You Ask
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If You Ask
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Well I've come to know the look on your face
When you're lying about where you've been
Or how much you spent
I know when you will raise your fingers to your mouth
As if to wipe away the shame
It's not a game, I know you feel bad
If you ask for my forgiveness
If you call my name I will come
If you ask for my love I will give you some
Some day I know you will understand
Some day you'll finally realize
What you're doing to yourself
We've been dancing to that same old song
Over and over again
I want to be your lover
I don't want to be your policeman
So tonight when you finally make your way back to our door
I'll let you sleep it off
Like I did the night before
And in the morning I will get you up
And I will smile just when you want me to
'Cause I'm all you have
When you ask for my forgiveness
When you call my name I will come
When you ask for my love I will give you some
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Lori Mckenna performs "If You Ask", and this lyric page sits inside the Lori Mckenna catalog on LyroVerse.
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