album: TANGERINE

The leadoff single from TANGERINE, This song was debuted late 2001 during the end of the M&Y tour. The original version, titled "Fighting For Her Life", contained different lyrics and a bridge not used in the final version of the song.

"I think it got kicked out before because there was an aspect of it that seemed a little too broadway, and this was the first record I've had where I was able to say 'fuck it, who cares it it's broadway?' - do it if it sounds good. I also got hung up on that original chorus, I didn't like that but I just kept messing around with it and got it to a place where I liked it. I honestly can't remember if it hung around all that time. There was a line about drugs in there [the original version], but I thought it was fairly similar. I think it just might be a slightly more adult version of the song. The object is not as particularly shallow as the last person was. Other than that, it was just changing the direction - it seemed more honest to be directed at a person as opposed to a story I was telling you about somebody else. It seemed a little martyrish the other way." - interview, June 3 2006

i've been fighting for your life
in this creepy little world
i've been speaking guns and knives
trying hard to save a girl
'cause almost everything you want
it's just mirrors, dust and smoke
take a look at what we got
and you'll finally get the joke
and i'm fighting for your life
hard to bring you closer when you're trying hard to hide
hard to win you over 'cause i'm
fighting for your life
come on baby, try to love the things you never liked
and help me now, i'm fighting for your life
probably wasted too much time
trying to weigh you down with rules
shielding mercenary eyes
from the words we never use
and i'm fighting for your life
hard to bring you closer when you're trying hard to hide
hard to win you over 'cause i'm
fighting for your life
come on baby, try to love the things you never liked
and help me now, i'm fighting for your life

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