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Chicago – Better lyrics
You can count on a number of things
Like tomorrow the sun's gonna shine
There'll be flowers in spring time
Poets will make rhymes
Couples in moonlight are so ripe to fall
Fallin' in love, such a natural thing
There's a look in that one person's eyes
And the moment we know it
We don't want to blow it
So we get way too careful and it all slips away
You've always told me
You can do better
And something would always come along,
And so I listened, down to the letter
'Til somebody better came along
You... you can do better
Talkin' to you, you, you, you...
You gotta do better!
Now I feel like I'm swimming upstream
When the current is running so strong
I'm a fish out of water
The first time I saw you
Couldn't keep it together
Don't care if I'm wrong
But it seems like forever
Since we got along
You've always told me
You can do better
And something would always come along
And so I listened, down to the letter
'Til somebody better came along
You said it so often
You thought I'd believe it
That I was always doin' it wrong,
But you always said that
You could take it or leave it
So, somebody better came along!
(Repeat last two verses)
You... You can do better, better.
Talkin' to you, you, you...
You gotta do better!
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You can count on a number of things Like tomorrow the sun's gonna shine There'll be flowers in spring time Poets will make rhymes Couples in moonlight are so ripe to fall Fallin' in love, such a natural thing There's a look in that one person's eyes And the moment we know it We don't want to blow it So we get way too careful and it all slips away You've always told me You can do better And something would always come along, And so I listened, down to the letter 'Til somebody better came along You... you can do better Talkin' to you, you, you, you... You gotta do better! Now I feel like I'm swimming upstream When the current is running so strong I'm a fish out of water The first time I saw you Couldn't keep it together Don't care if I'm wrong But it seems like forever Since we got along You've always told me You can do better And something would always come along And so I listened, down to the letter 'Til somebody better came along You said it so often You thought I'd believe it That I was always doin' it wrong, But you always said that You could take it or leave it So, somebody better came along! (Repeat last two verses) You... You can do better, better. Talkin' to you, you, you... You gotta do better! Explain Request ×



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Songwriters: BRAD HEANEY, Bradley Paul Heaney, DAVID GLEESON, David Sean Gleeson, GRANT WALMSLEY, Paul Bradford Woseen, PAUL WOSEEN, RICHARD LARA, Richard Mark Lara
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