I Love You, Please Don't Hate Me Album Lyrics by Sam Fischer

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I Love You, Please Don't Hate Me

Why do I say those things?
Why do I talk like that?
The more that I hurt you, the less that my words do
When I try to take it all back
Why do I f*ck things up
When I'm not tryna f*ck things up?
I know I've been stressed, say I'm doing my best
But I know that that isn't enough

To excuse it
Now all my excuses
Aren't enough to undo this
So, why do I do this?

I love you, please don't hate me
I've put you through so much, baby
I'm so sick of startin' every sentence with, "I'm sorry"
But I love you, please don't hate me
Know it's all I'm sayin' lately
I'm so sick of startin' every sentence with, "I'm sorry"
But I love you, please don't hate me
Oh, I love you, please don't hate me

You know that I hate myself
So you don't have to hate me too
I'll make a joke just to cope in the hope
That you see me the way that you used to

Without the excuses
Now all my excuses
Aren't enough to undo this
So, why do I do this? Oh

I love you, please don't hate me
I've put you through so much, baby
I'm so sick of startin' every sentence with, "I'm sorry"
But I love you, please don't hate me
Know it's all I'm sayin' lately
I'm so sick of startin' every sentence with, "I'm sorry"
But I love you, please don't hate me
I love you, please don't hate me

'Cause one day
I'll ask for forgiveness
And you'll say, "I can't, babe
No, I can't forgive this"

I love you, please don't hate me
Oh, I'm so sick of startin' every sentence with, "I'm sorry"
But I love you, please don't hate me
Know it's all I'm sayin' lately
I'm so sick of startin' every sentence with, "I'm sorry"
But I love you, please don't hate me
I love you, please don't hate me

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Afterglow

Ready?
Yeah
One, two, three, four

In a minute, all at once
Stopped dead at the door
I'm smilin' like I caught up with God
And He told me not to worry at all, yeah
Supersonic, half a night
Maybe I'm overtired
I'm laughing just a little too much
I'm rememberin' the way that it was

I found it, want it to stay
My broken heart starts to race
I can't look, can't look away
I can't look away

Now I'm, I'm up so close
In a blindin' light
I can see it all
Now I, I have to know
What the feeling's like
In your afterglow
Afterglow

Photographic, diamond light
Take a picture of this
I'm breathing like I've finished the race
Eyes burning and I'm red in the face, yeah
It's automatic the second I
Felt the rush over my spine
I'm starin' like I'm seein' a ghost
But I'm dreamin' 'bout you taking me home

I found it, want it to stay
My broken heart starts to race
I can't look, can't look away
I can't look away

Now I'm, I'm up so close
In a blindin' light
I can see it all
Now I, I have to know
What the feeling's like
In your afterglow
Afterglow
In your afterglow

Now I'm, I'm up so close
In a blindin' light
I can see it all
Now I, I have to know
What the feeling's like
In your afterglow

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Hopeless Romantic

I do it to myself
Fabricate a dream, reaching for what I see
In everybody else
It's never what it seems
It seems like they're happier than me
Seems like they're where I wanna be

I've got the heart of a hopeless romantic
Can you imagine
Looking for love in somewhere it's not?
I'm broken and manic
Can you imagine
Looking for love in somewhere it's not?

It's enough to drive you crazy, crazy (mmm)
When I think about it
It's enough to drive you crazy, crazy (mmm, mmm)

It's like I'm lying to myself (myself, myself, myself)
And hopelessly romanticizing, unwilling to compromise
With staring at the stars (stars)
While standing on the moon, instead of in this room
Nothing's ever enough for me
I keep it buried underneath (oh, oh-oh, oh)

I've got the heart of a hopeless romantic
Can you imagine
Looking for love in somewhere it's not?
I'm broken and manic
Can you imagine
Looking for love in somewhere it's not?

It's enough to drive you crazy, crazy (mmm)
When I think about it
It's enough to drive you crazy, crazy (mmm, mmm)

Can you imagine (can you imagine)
Hopeless romantic, hopeless romantic
Can you imagine
Hopeless romantic

I've got the heart of a hopeless romantic
Can you imagine
Looking for love in somewhere it's not?
I'm broken and manic (broken and manic)
Can you imagine (can you imagine)
Looking for love in somewhere it's not?

It's enough to drive you crazy, crazy (mmm, drive me crazy)
When I think about it (oh, ooh, no, whoa)
It's enough to drive you crazy, crazy (mmm, mmm)

Hopeless romantic, hopeless romantic

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This City

I've been seeing lonely people in crowded rooms
Covering their old heartbreaks with new tattoos
It's all about smoke screens and cigarettes
Looking through low lights at silhouettes
But all I see is lonely people in crowded rooms

This city's gonna break my heart
This city's gonna love me then leave me alone
This city's got me chasing stars
It's been a couple months since I felt like I'm home
Am I getting closer to knowing where I belong?
This city's gonna break my heart
She's always gonna break your heart, oh

I remember mornings when my head didn't hurt
And I remember nights when art didn't feel like work
She wakes up at noon and she's out 'til three
She leaves her perfume all over me
But I remember mornings when my head didn't hurt

Oh, this city's gonna break my heart (it's gonna break my heart)
This city's gonna love me then leave me alone
This city's got me chasing stars (got me chasing stars)
It's been a couple months since I felt like I'm home (oh)
Am I getting closer to knowing where I belong?
This city's gonna break my heart
She's always gonna break your heart

Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, oh
Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

She got a hold on me
She got me wrapped 'round her finger
She got a hold on me
She got me wrapped 'round her finger

This city's gonna break my heart (oh, yeah)
This city's gonna love me then leave me alone (it's gonna love me then leave me alone)
This city's got me chasing stars (oh)
It's been a couple months since I felt like I'm home
Am I getting closer to knowing where I belong?
This city's gonna break my heart (hey, yeah)
She's always gonna break your heart

Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, yeah
Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, oh

This city's gonna break my heart, hey
She's always gonna break your heart

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What Other People Say

Thought when I grew up
I would be the same as the ones who gave me my last name
I would not give in, I would not partake
In the same old drugs everyone else takes

I'm better than that, I'm better than that
I'm living my life so I go to heaven and never come back
But look where I'm at, look where I'm at
I'm living the life that I said I wouldn't, I wanna go back

I used to call my mom every Sunday
So she knew her love wasn't far away
But now I'm all f*cked up out in LA
'Cause I care more about what other people say
I used to not take chances with God's name
But it's been so long since I last prayed
And now I'm all f*cked up and my heart's changed
'Cause I care more about what other people say
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
'Cause I care more about what other people say

I wish I could shelter the boy I knew
From the constant hell I put him through
'Cause I'm all grown up and I'm black and blue
I could use some tape, I could use some glue

I'm better than that, I'm better than that
I should be living my life so I go to heaven and never come back

I used to call my mom every Sunday
So she knew her love wasn't far away
But now I'm all f*cked up out in LA
'Cause I care more about what other people say
I used to not take chances with God's name
But it's been so long since I last prayed
And now I'm all f*cked up and my heart's changed
'Cause I care more about what other people say
Yeah, yeah, yeah
'Cause I care more about what other people say

Thought when I grew up
I would be the same as the ones who gave me my last name

I used to call my mom every Sunday
So she knew her love wasn't far away (far away)
But now I'm all f*cked up out in LA (out in LA)
'Cause I care more about what other people say
I used to not take chances with God's name (God's name)
But it's been so long since I last prayed (since I last prayed)
And now I'm all f*cked up and my heart's changed (and my heart changed)
'Cause I care more about what other people say (what other people say)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (yeah, yeah, no, no)
'Cause I care more about what other people say

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You Don't Call Me Anymore

I can still hear your laugh in the back of the cab
We were drunk, it's been ages
Pick a fight with the driver
You're kind of a dick like that
Another one for the books and the punches were good
We were adding the pages
Drove away to a time and a place that I can't get back

And I didn't know
I was watching you go

And you never said it
But you moved on without moving at all
You just don't call me anymore
And nothing happened
Can't even say there's something to ignore
You just don't call me anymore

I can still send a text and a meme
You don't check, but I do out of habit
Top spot, you're my favourite call
Tough love, we don't talk at all

I didn't know
I was watching you go

And you never said it
But you moved on without moving at all
You just don't call me anymore
And nothing happened (nothing happened)
Can't even say there's something to ignore (oh, no)
You just don't call me anymore
You don't call (you don't call)
You don't call me anymore (you don't call me)
You don't call
You don't call me anymore

You don't call my number
I've been wondering where you are
'Cause I miss your voice, it's a mystery that

You never said it (you never said it)
But you moved on without moving at all (oh-ooh, at all)
You just don't call me anymore (don't call me)
And nothing happened (nothing happened)
Can't even say there's something to ignore (oh, no, yeah)
You just don't call me anymore (don't call)
You don't call
You don't call me anymore
You don't call
You don't call me anymore
You don't call
You don't call me anymore
You don't call
You don't call me anymore

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Landslide

Quiet night, small-town bar
You and I makin' small talk 'bout nothing
But I feel somethin'
With you, you
Your eyes speakin' to me
Your heart effortlessly sinks into me
And I can't stop it even if I
Wanted to, ooh

This love is like a landslide
Like we're falling with our hands tied
And there's nowhere left for us to hide, to hide, to hide, to hide
Yeah, this love is like a landslide
It's rushin' from the inside
And there's nowhere left for us to hide, to hide, to hide, to hide
So, say it ain't so, say it ain't so
This could be the end of the road
This love is like a landslide

Midnight dance in the streets
Your arms wrapped around me
And I swear I never tasted a kiss so
Sweet, sweet
Right out from under my feet
So fast I couldn't see you comin'
Now I don't see no use in runnin', oh

This love is like a landslide
Like we're falling with our hands tied
And there's nowhere left for us to hide, to hide, to hide, to hide
Yeah, this love is like a landslide
It's rushin' from the inside
And there's nowhere left for us to hide, to hide, to hide, to hide
So, say it ain't so, say it ain't so
This could be the end of the road
This love is like a landslide

This love is like a landslide
Like we're falling with our hands tied
And there's nowhere left for us to hide, to hide, to hide, to hide
Yeah, this love is like a landslide
It's rushin' from the inside
And there's nowhere left for us to hide, to hide, to hide, to hide
So, say it ain't so, say it ain't so
This could be the end of the road

Say it ain't so, say it ain't so
'Cause wherever you go
I'll love you through the landslide

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Iceberg

I don't sleep too much at all
I'm all up in my head, of course
Conversations with the walls

And I swear
If they could talk, they would say, "Calm it down
Calm it down, it's alright
You got everything you told 'em all about
It's your mind, in the way of a good time"
I'm freaking out

I'm at the tip of the iceberg
I've heard nothing's gonna slow it now
The only man on the island
I've been looking for a way to get out
I've heard I'm on fire, oh, no
'Cause, if I'm on fire, I know
That at the tip of the iceberg
It's only going down
It's only going down

Mom don't have our old address
But that don't I miss it less
It's the place I found my legs

And I swear
If she was here, she would say, "Calm it down
Calm it down, it's alright
You got everything you used to talk about
It's your mind in the way of a good time"
I'm freaking out

I'm at the tip of the iceberg
I've heard nothing's gonna slow it now
The only man on the island
I've been looking for a way to get out
I've heard I'm on fire, oh, no
'Cause, if I'm on fire, I know
That at the tip of the iceberg
It's only going down
It's only going down

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
It's only going down
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

I'm at the tip of the iceberg
I've heard nothing's gonna slow it now
The only man on the island
I've been looking for a way to get out
I've heard I'm on fire, oh, no
'Cause, if I'm on fire, I know
That at the tip of the iceberg
It's only going down
It's only going down

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
It's only going down
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
I'm at the tip of the iceberg

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Hard to Love

I can shut off for days at a time
Do what I want without you in mind
I try to change
But it's hard to change
When I get it wrong, you get it right
And I'm just a loner in your social life
And I'm always late
And I always say

I gotta break these habits before I die
I just need some time

I'm doin' all I can to be a better man
So, please don't give me up when I'm hard to love
My heart's a little roughed up, it can be too much, but
Please, don't give me up
When I'm hard to love, hard to love, hard to love
When I'm hard to love, hard to love, hard to love

I don't wanna let you down like I have before
You've got your share of reasons not to love me anymore
I drink but I still pray, I cry but I'm okay
'Cause you forgive me when I can't forgive myself

Oh, I gotta break these habits before I die
I just need some time

I'm doin' all I can to be a better man
So, please don't give me up when I'm hard to love
My heart's a little roughed up, it can be too much, but
Please, don't give me up when I'm hard to love

When I get it wrong, you get it right
And I'm just a loner in your social life
I try to change
But it's hard to change

I'm doin' all I can to be a better man
So, please don't give me up when I'm hard to love
My heart's a little roughed up, it can be too much, but
Please, don't give me up
When I'm hard to love, hard to love, hard to love
When I'm hard to love, hard to love, hard to love
When I'm hard to love, hard to love, hard to love
When I'm hard to love, hard to love, hard to love

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Watching My World Fall Apart

Summer of '15, started our history
Linin' our memories with good weed and Springsteen
We were a cliche, the best kind of keepsake
Backseat of a V Dub, young, dumb and in love
I guess you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
Just like the last verse of that Joni song
And I don't know what's wrong

There's nothin' I could do, there's nothin' I could say
I'd beg you not to leave if I really thought you'd stay here
Watchin' my world fall apart
You're watchin' the makin' of a broken heart

(Don't know what you got 'til it's gone)

Sitting in silence, it's cold in this taxi
Stopped at a crossroads, and you're not reactin'
And I don't know what's wrong

There's nothin' I could do, there's nothin' I could say
I'd beg you not to leave if I really thought you'd stay here
Watchin' my world fall apart
You're watchin' the makin' of a broken heart

(Don't know what you got 'til it's gone) yeah
(Don't know what you got)
Just like the last verse of that Joni song (no)
(Don't know what you got)
I guess, you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
(You don't know what you got 'til it's gone)
Just like the last verse of that Joni song

And I don't know what's wrong
There's nothin' I can do, there's nothin' I can say
I'd beg you not to leave if I really thought you'd stay here
Watchin' my world fall apart
You're watchin' my world fall apart
You're watchin' my world fall apart
You're watchin' the makin' of a broken heart

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Alright

I'm gonna be alright
I'll say a thousand times
Until it takes over my mind
And I think I'm (I'm gonna be alright)

I won't talk about it enough to make it real
My insides are shouting but I can barely hear, yeah
I've dug my heels in to stop the feeling
Convinced it's something that will never show
Broken my cup, can't fill it up no more

But, even if I don't believe it
It ain't real if I can't see it
I swear that

I'm gonna be alright
I say a thousand times
Until it takes over my mind
And I think I'm
I'm gonna be alright
Make no mistake, I'll be just fine
At least, I'll say it a thousand times
Until it takes over my mind
I'm gonna be alright

I-I, I
I-I, I, I
I'm gonna be alright
I-I, I
I-I, I, I

Mama said there would be days like this
Where I don't understand, uh
And there ain't nobody makin' sense
They'll never know who I am, I am (I am)

But, even if I don't believe it (believe it)
It ain't real if I can't see it, no, but

I'm gonna be alright
I say a thousand times
Until it takes over my mind
And I think I'm
I'm gonna be alright
Make no mistake, I'll be just fine
At least, I'll say it a thousand times
Until it takes over my mind
I'm gonna be alright

I-I, I
I-I, I, I
I'm gonna be alright
I-I, I
I-I, I, I
(I'm gonna be alright)

Who would I be? Who would I be without it?
I wanna see who I could be without it

I'm gonna be alright
I say a thousand times
Until it takes over my mind
And I think I'm (ayy)
I'm gonna be alright
Make no mistake, I'll be just fine
At least, I'll say it a thousand times
Until it takes over my mind
I'm gonna be alright

I-I, I
I-I, I, I
I'm gonna be alright
I-I, I
I-I, I, I
I'm gonna be alright

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High On You

Some days I can't get out of bed
But that don't mean I don't want you in it
Some days I can't like what I see
But I feel alright when you're looking at me

I don't know how but you find a way
Of fixing my heart when I think it might break

Whenever I get low on love
I get high on you
Whenever I don't have enough
I get by on you
Even when I lose my grip start to slip up
You give me something to hold onto
Whenever I get low on love
I get high, high on you

Some days I can't be who you hope
But that doesn't mean I want you to go
Some days I'll push you to the edge
But I'm just projecting the things in my head

I don't know how but you find a way
Of fixing my heart when I think it might break

Whenever I get low on love
I get high on you
Whenever I don't have enough
I get by on you
Even when I lose my grip start to slip up
You give me something to hold onto
Whenever I get low on love
I get high, high on you

Sometimes I don't, don't understand
How you can take me just as I am
You could have anybody you want
It's almost unfair that I'm who you go

Whenever I get low on love
I get high on you (I get high on you)
Whenever I don't have enough
I get by on you
Even when I lose my grip start to slip up
You give me something to hold onto
Whenever I get low on love
I get high, high on you

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Secondhand Happiness

Saw you down the aisle of a Goodwill
Going through our vinyls for your record player
Always thought that it would be a big deal
Seeing you with someone new
I used to make you laugh but never that loud
I thought it would be hard to know you're so damn happy
I haven't found it easy but I'm good now
Seeing you, someone new

The selfish side of me was hopin' you'd be broken still
It's kinda bittersweet, I know, but this is how I feel

It's like secondhand happiness
Never thought I'd smile for you again
But knowin' it's for the best
I can lay my jealous heart to rest
It heals the pain, it heals the hurt
To see you find what you deserve
So, I'll take what I can get
Secondhand happiness

Secondhand, secondhand happiness
Secondhand, secondhand happiness
Secondhand, secondhand happiness

I hate talkin' about you in the past tense
Probably 'cause I always thought you'd be in my future
But maybe in the future, we could be friends
Someday soon, it's up to you

The selfish side of me was hopin' you'd be broken still
It's kinda bittersweet, I know, but this is how I feel

It's like secondhand happiness
Never thought I'd smile for you again
But knowin' it's for the best
I can lay my jealous heart to rest
It heals the pain, it heals the hurt
To see you find what you deserve
So, I'll take what I can get
Secondhand happiness

Secondhand, secondhand happiness
Secondhand, secondhand happiness
Secondhand, secondhand happiness
Secondhand, secondhand happiness
Secondhand, secondhand happiness
Secondhand, secondhand happiness
Secondhand, secondhand happiness
Secondhand happiness

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Somebody Cares

Movin' on is hard to do
I still can't get to gettin' through
Lived the life from my living room
I hit the heights, hated the view

My friends gave me some pills to swallow
And I even told them that they helped
But truth is, they're still in the bottle
'Cause I can't even help myself

And so it goes when I go down
I go there just to get pulled out
It's a one-man fight goin' round for round
I just wanna be someone somebody cares about
I just wanna be someone somebody cares about (whoa)
I just wanna be someone somebody cares about (whoa)
(Whoa)
(Whoa)

It's like I'm afraid of bein' fine
Like the love won't stay if I'm alright
So I'll call you up and I'll start a fight
'Cause how else will I stay on your mind? Oh

And so it goes when I go down
I go there just to get pulled out
It's a one-man fight goin' round for round
I just wanna be someone somebody cares about
I just wanna be someone somebody cares about (whoa)
I just wanna be someone somebody cares about (whoa)
(Whoa)
(Whoa)

My friends gave me pills to swallow
And I even told them that they helped
But truth is, I don't wanna be forgotten
Even if it's wrong, it's honest

And so it goes when I go down
I go there just to get pulled out
It's a one-man fight goin' round for round
I just wanna be someone somebody cares about
And so it goes when I go down
I go there just to get pulled out
It's a one-man fight goin' round for round
I just wanna be someone somebody cares about
I just wanna be someone somebody cares about (whoa)
I just wanna be someone somebody cares about (whoa)
(Whoa)
I just wanna be someone somebody cares about (whoa)

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Carry It Well

Come home, get high
Forget about the time between my highlights
Yeah, I know but I'm fine
It's been a rough time
Poker face, in play
Otherwise it makes me think I'm unsafe
Yeah, I know, it's strange
Wish it wasn't this way

But no one seems to know any better
I designed it that way
I know it seems I have it together

But just because I carry it well
Doesn't mean it isn't heavy and I don't need some help
I know I keep it locked down, but all I want now
Is somebody who can tell me how it's gonna turn out
'Cause I thought I'd be doing better by now
I thought I'd be doing better by now
But don't I carry it well?

I'm grateful but impatient, get hateful, but I'm sided
So those who mean the most who get the best of me
And I can't come back home and fight the rest of me
It's best to leave

'Cause no one seems to know any better
And I designed it it that way
I know it seems I have it together

But just because I carry it well
Doesn't mean it isn't heavy and I don't need some help
I know I keep it locked down, but all I want now
Is somebody who can tell me how it's gonna turn out
'Cause I thought I'd be doing better by now
I thought I'd be doing better by now
But don't I carry it well?

Don't I carry it well?
'Cause no one seems to know any better

Just because I carry it well
Doesn't mean it isn't heavy and I don't need some help
I know I keep it locked down, but all I want now
Is somebody who can tell me how it's gonna turn out (how it's gonna turn out)
'Cause I thought I'd be doing better by now
I thought I'd be doing better by now
But don't I carry it well?
Don't I carry it well?
'Cause no one seems to know any better