If I Don't Tell You Now
Boys And Girls Lyrics
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Girl I wake up and pray
That you'll come back home
Don't take too long
Cause since you've been gone
Everything's gone all went wrong
I wish you were here
holding me near
You know I'd go
out of my mind
If you ever left
my heart behind
So I'm begging you please
Bring your sweet love back to me
If I don't have you
(Don't have you)
to hold on to
(to hold on to)
I can't go on
in this world alone
Baby, It's true
(Baby, It's true)
If I don't have you
If you say goodbye
(you said goodbye)
Girl, I would die
(Girl, I would die)
I'm a star with no light
a day with no night
If I don't have you
The lyrics to Boys And Girls' song "If I Don't Tell You Now" express the pain and desperation felt by the singer who has lost their lover. The singer wakes up every day and prays for their partner's return, acknowledging that everything has gone wrong since they've been apart. The singer wishes that their loved one was there to hold them close and make everything feel right again. The chorus of the song conveys the absolute importance of this person to the singer, as they beg for their return and confess that they cannot go on alone. The final lines of the chorus paint a bleak picture of the singer's existence without their lover, as they compare themselves to a star with no light and a day with no night - incomplete and meaningless.
The song is a poignant representation of the intense emotions experienced during a breakup, and highlights the vital role that love plays in our lives. The relationship is portrayed as the most important thing in the singer's life, and the desperation they feel without it is palpable. The lyrics are straightforward and relatable, conveying the universal feelings of love and loss that we all experience at some point.
Line by Line Meaning
Every day
Without a break or pause, continuously, each and every day
Girl I wake up and pray
Consistently and persistently, each and every morning, I pray for you
That you'll come back home
My heart desires for you to return home, to be where we belong together
Don't take too long
Please come back to me as quickly as you can, for time feels endless without you
Cause since you've been gone
The void you left since you left is unbearable to withstand
Everything's gone all went wrong
Everything seems to have fallen out of place since you departed, nothing seems to be in order
I wish you were here
I long for your presence, for you to be here with me
Holding me near
Embracing me tightly and never letting me go
You know I'd go
It is a known fact that I would be willing
Out of my mind
To lose all composure, to reach the point of insanity
If you ever left
In the situation where you decided to depart from my life
My heart behind
Taking my heart with you, and leaving me desolate and hopeless
So I'm begging you please
With all humility and sincerity, I plead with you
Bring your sweet love back to me
To come back to me and fill the void in my heart with your love
If I don't have you (Don't have you) to hold on to (to hold on to)
If I lose grip of you, my anchor, my rock, my source of strength and courage, then all is lost
I can't go on in this world alone
I am powerless, overwhelmed, lonely and helpless in this world without you by my side
Baby, It's true (Baby, It's true)
It is not only mere words, but deep conviction that I need you more than I need anything else
If you say goodbye (you said goodbye)
In the event where you decided to say the words that could break me, goodbye
Girl, I would die (Girl, I would die)
It would be the end of me, leaving me with no reason to live
I'm a star with no light
Clinically dysfunctional, with all potential and dreams quenched as if the light inside me is gone
A day with no night
A world of endless daylight, where rest and solitude are no more, just perpetual anxiety and pain
If I don't have you
Summing up the reality of my life without you in a resounding statement full of gravity and meaning
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: DARRELL WAYNE PERRY, GARY BAKER, TIMOTHY MONROE ALLEN
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
Nicole
Love this movie. If it's all the same should this video also be viewed by others there's someone I care about and I'm worried about that I tried to tell him about those feelings once but I think he'd understandit better if heshould see the video and my message
This is that message :
I meant to say "are you listening to me because I have to tell you something: I am in love with you. I am not happy about it. As a matter of fact I have spent a decent amount of energy trying to forget you but I can't and what's worse Is that you said @loveisequalandsharedoritsobsession and I know I'm not obsessed with you because I have loved other men. I will again I guess but not like I love you because I haven't loved you and another without being able to not love you more than I love them.
I don't need a lot but I need a lot of what I do need. I will live or die in excess of something and if it was up to me it'd be of letting you in which is not a good idea because youre far away and you think im just a face or a butt and Im more because a good man loves me. Everything you told me not to settle for less than I have and when I can't stay in the home I grew up in i have a place to go. With a mom who cooks me steak and is nice and someone who everyone likes and who likes everyone except you.
And after my birthday which I don't know if you called but I know I was ok I thought once I was back safe with him but then he was falling asleep and NORMALLY Id have been sleeping but I just laid there looking at the streetlights and they were amber and i fucking missed you.
I couldn't sleep. I just wanted you. Now I don't know if that matters or if you have someone but you and your stupid logic made me need to tell you that so I'm telling you that" wherever I'm going when I get to where I'm getting to i dont want to go if youre not there....
AND ANOTHER THING I am not a house n*** but I waited on a corner for you to call and a cop came and i told him how many people lived with me and that I just needed space.
Now. Now I will let you go. Please see this because youre never coming home again every day. I feel like every day I wait for you to call me and say you're on your way home and you don't and it's like it's because of me but thats the opposite isn't it?
I am sorry you found me like that but I guess only because I lived and I know that's not enough for how I scared you it's just I was fine not having you or the kids or the everything except I am not a gooma i am not cheap or annoying.
You just don't like being loved for all the same reasons I don't like loving, but we have something you can't work on or fix.
Its not enough but if that was all we ever had it was still is still so much more than either of us really think we deserve. Aren't those the people that do deserve it.
That's it. I'm not doing this bullshit first move thing ever again because yanno what?! All y'all (you and the rest of the rest of the brave enough to want a handful but not enough to demand her... I had it.) All a really goodd hearted woman wants is somewhere safe to rest herself, someone who says "with all due respect I came here for my wife and Im not leaving without her" and to not have to explain why she feels like she does.
Now did you know that already because if you did I'll give up to not giving up on you because then...i don't have enough confidence or hope and you and me are a longshot to put it lightly because just like this movie the last song? Garbage but this and the part where she loses it and he goes after her is great.
She was just trying to save him from her. He's angry but if he didn't tell her that hes mad because she immediately went from vulnerable to distant with no explanation... any woman can be whiskey, even good whiskey.
But what kind of man, what kind of sane man walks out after a girl like that who has a ser big enough to say yea she might be crazy but I'm with her and ill fight anyone who calls her crazy.
I want him. I had him. I love him.
That's what i meant. Do whatever you want but no pressure but I might not "need" you but ill be damned if I need you to feel like living in the first place.
But If it's too late or it was then I dunno ok I guess.
I guess that's it. Don't be stranger because I'm scared that I cant hack it. Youre a good man don't die. There was something else I had to tell you but I forgot
sylart57
This is one of those songs that hits you right in the heart the first time you hear it! Reminds me of first love, coming of age days!! Do I tell her, or do I not?! “How will you know you’re inside my soul??!!!!” Excellent!!!! This song made the whole movie for me!!! Had to grab it on iTunes!!!
Niña Loreto
When I was younger, I used to binge watch all of Freddie Prinze's movies and when I first heard this song it really drove the movie home for me. I miss old movie soundtracks so much. They don't make them like this anymore.
kareem ali
Ik such a good movie
Lolo Buto
I was watching boys and girls movie just few minutes ago and this song gave me the last song syndrome damn!!! It hits me!!
Nicole
Last song syndrome? Because the end of the movie right? Worst selection but as time goes by was taken besides that'ss the point.
It wasn't meant to be the whole story or the movie would be men and women. It's just hang up on one
Sybrena Wagner
beautiful song
vanna yim
its one of them songs that is just perfect for the moment
tonyspud
Brilliant .. well done ...
Shimoné Britz
My favourite movie💗
edwin flores
Buena peli...Buena canción.