Before You Leave
Bittersweet Farewell: Emotions Before Departure
Lyrics
I want to tell you how you got me feeling
The speaker wants to express how their feelings have been affected by someone.
Like your the only one that can bring me down
They feel vulnerable because this person has the power to affect their emotions significantly.
And I can't get over this feeling
The speaker is struggling to move past or let go of these intense emotions.
You lift me up then you
Describes a cycle where the person raises the speaker's spirits but then causes turmoil.
Spin me around cause I'm a
Metaphorically compares the speaker's energy or nature to that of a race car.
Race car your a
Compares the person they're addressing to a powerful and iconic car, a Mustang.
Mustang
Feels fragile and delicate compared to the person who seems capable of causing heartbreak.
I'm a piece of glass
The other person is seen as another potential source of heartache.
Your another heart break
The speaker is writing something for this person but wants them to accept it.
I'm writing for you but I
Expresses a desire for distance or separation from the person.
Want you to take
The speaker wishes for the person to leave and take their defining red hair with them.
Your red hair away from me
The speaker believes they'll be in a better state when the person goes to college.
And I'll be
Anticipates a positive change when the person pursues higher education.
Better off when you
Suggests that the person departing might lead to an improvement in the speaker's life.
Go to college and
Hopes for the person's departure to lead to personal growth.
Maybe you will
Encourages the person to acquire new knowledge during their college experience.
Get new knowledge
Advises against wasting the opportunity presented with the speaker.
But don't try and blow your chance
Reiterates the hope that the person won't ruin their chances with the speaker.
With me
A plea for the person to not neglect their connection with the speaker.
Before you leave
Repeated chorus emphasizing the urgency of addressing these feelings before the person leaves.
Before you leave
-Before you leave
-Before your long gone
-Before you leave
-Before you leave
-Before you leave
-Before your long gone
-And I hope that you
-Make new friends
-And I hope I'm not
-Better then them
-Cause what's good for you
-Is great, for me
-So when you
-Hold me, then
-Hold me close and I'll
-Know its you that
-I love the most
-I feel so torn
-When your without me
-Before you leave
-Before you leave
-Before you leave
-Before your long gone
-Before you leave
-Before you leave
-Before you leave
-Before your long gone
-I will wait
-But not forever
-So if your going to come around
-It's either now or never
-I know you know
-Deep dark inside
-That you ain't ever
-Going to find anyone like me
-In your lifetime
-So before your gone
-I said before you
-Go to college
-I hope that you will
-Get the knowledge
-that there ain't no one
-Out there like Me
-Before you leave
-Before you leave
-Before you leave
-Before your long gone
-Before you leave
-Before you leave
-Before you leave
-But now your gone
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