Let Me Go

"One last time" - I tell myself every time

But always return to the scene of the crime

Just like a ghost to the place they died

'Cause you make me yearn to be refused

Your intimate hope for a life you won't choose

To keep me around just to keep you amused

Won't you please cut me loose?

I'm bleedin' out slowly

But you keep me alive

I'm pleadin' for mercy

But you won't let me die

If you're not in love with me, just tell me so

Stop reelin' me in

And then lettin' me go

Oooh woah

Well it can't be the chase you love, 'cause I've never run

And it can't be a game 'cause you've already won

I feel like a dog at the races

Who futilely chases what's endlessly just out of reach

But you make me yearn to be abused

You suture me up just to open new wounds

And how is it I'm neither numb nor immune?

And why when you call can I never refuse?

I'm bleedin' out slowly

But you keep me alive

I'm pleadin' for mercy

But you won't let me die

If you're not in love with me, just tell me so

Stop reelin' me in

And then lettin' me go

Oh woah, hooh woah

Oh woah, oh woah

Why don't you love me the way that I do?

And why don't you need me the way I need you?

And how many years have I wasted

Hopin' you'll change when you never will

(You never will)

Never will, forever you're just

Reelin' me in (Reelin' me in)

And lettin' me go

You're reelin' me in (Reelin' me in)

And lettin' me go

You're reelin' me in (Reelin' me in)

Mhmm

You're reelin' me in (Reelin' me in)

Ohh

You steal the life from me

(Shake all that I believe)

But I can't leave you, no

(I'll always need you so)

I love you more than words

(It's more than you deserve)

You're stringin' me along

(Like grabbin' onto fog)

But all I catch is mist

(What little of you sticks)

You dry up and you're gone

(And I'm again alone)

And on and on it goes

(Forever it unfolds)

We're fated, I suppose

(To always play these roles)

Reelin' me in (Reelin' me in)

And lettin' me go

You're reelin' me in (Reelin' me in)

And lettin' me go

You're reelin' me in (Reelin' me in)

Ooh, ohh

(Yeah, yeah)

(Mmmm)

Oh, why can't you love me?

(Can't you love me? Yeah, yeah)

(Hey-yeaah, ooooh)

Love, love, love me, love