Maroon 5
Payphone lyrics
- Language
- English
- Level
- Beginner
- Released
- 2012
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 4:00
I'm at a payphone, trying to call home
All of my change, I spent on you
Where have the times gone? Baby, it's all wrong
Where are the plans we made for two?
Yeah, I, I know it's hard to remember the people we used to be
It's even harder to picture that you're not here next to me
You say it's too late to make it, but is it too late to try?
And in our time that you wasted, all of our bridges burned down
I've wasted my nights, you turned out the lights
Now I'm paralyzed
Still stuck in that time when we called it love
But even the sun sets in paradise
I'm at a payphone, trying to call home
All of my change, I spent on you
Where have the times gone? Baby, it's all wrong
Where are the plans we made for two?
If happy-ever-afters did exist
I would still be holding you like this
All those fairy tales are full of shit
One more fucking love song, I'll be sick, oh
You turned your back on tomorrow 'cause you forgot yesterday
I gave you my love to borrow, but you just gave it away
You can't expect me to be fine (oh), I don't expect you to care (yeah)
I know I said it before, but all of our bridges burned down
I've wasted my nights, you turned out the lights
Now I'm paralyzed (oh)
Still stuck in that time when we called it love
But even the sun sets in paradise
I'm at a payphone, trying to call home
All of my change, I spent on you (oh-oh)
Where have the times gone? Baby, it's all wrong
Where are the plans we made for two? (Yeah)
If happy-ever-afters did exist
I would still be holding you like this
And all those fairy tales are full of shit
One more fucking love song, I'll be sick (uh)
Now I'm at a payphone
Man, fuck that shit
I be out spendin' all this money while you sittin' 'round
Wondering why it wasn't you who came up from nothin'
Made it from the bottom, now when you see me, I'm stuntin'
And all of my cars start with the push of a button
Telling me I changed since I blew up, or whatever you call it
Switched the number to my phone, so you never could call it
Don't need my name on my shirt, you can tell that I'm ballin'
Swish, what a shame, coulda got picked
Had a really good game, but you missed your last shot
So you talk about who you see at the top
Or what you could've saw, but sad to say, it's over for
Phantom pulled up, valet opened doors
Wished I'd go away, got what you was looking for
Now it's me who they want
So you can go and take that little piece of shit with you (yeah)
I'm at a payphone, trying to call home
All of my change, I spent on you (whoo!)
Where have the times gone? Baby, it's all wrong (yeah)
Where are the plans we made for two? (Whoo!)
If happy-ever-afters did exist (oh, yeah)
I would still be holding you like this
And all these fairy tales are full of shit (yeah)
One more fucking love song, I'll be sick
Yeah, now I'm at a payphone
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Key vocabulary
- gone
- not here; finishedA1
- baby
- very young childA1
- it's
- it isA1
- wrong
- not correct; incorrectA1
- plans
- things you intend to doA1
- made
- past of makeA1
- two
- one plus oneA1
- know
- have understandingA1
- i'm
- I am
- payphone
- phone you pay to use
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About this song
Maroon 5 is an American pop rock band from Los Angeles known for chart-topping singles like “This Love,” “She Will Be Loved,” and “Makes Me Wonder,” and for evolving from early alt-pop into more soul and electronic-leaning styles. Formed in the early 2000s by Adam Levine and longtime high-school friends, the group has remained a major mainstream act since the release of Songs About Jane in 2002.