More songs by Halstage
Description
Seven years is a decent amount of time to learn a new language, change a couple of jobs, and perhaps even stop waiting. But no. Time goes on, people change, but inside, it's still the same dead end of "what if." The warm habit of suffering aesthetically: looking back at someone who has long been looking the other way, and comforting oneself with thoughts of "karma" and "everything happens for a reason." Sad naivety, packaged in a beautiful melody, where each line is like an old notification that you're somehow reluctant to delete.
Lyrics and translation
Original
Emotional blackmail
That's your specialty
It doesn't work for me
A double-faced joker
With an evil side
Like a Jekyll-Hyde
You won me over
But you couldn't deliver
You're just a taker disguised as a giver
You can't hold me hostage
Can't tie me up in chains
Not gonna make me stay
You had my heart but lost it
You tried controlling me
Nobody's on to me
Only sin in your eyes
From your lips only lies
You can't hold me hostage
Time for me to move on
Good bye baby I'm gone
I'm gone
Don't talk about ransom
'Cuz you ain't got enough
No, you can't buy my love
It's time for some truth now
And some consequence
At your expense
You bent my will
But you never could break it
I'm not a prisoner here
For your taking
You can't hold me hostage
Can't tie me up in chains
Not gonna make me stay
You had my heart but lost it
You tried controlling me
Nobody's on to me
Only sin in your eyes
From your lips only lies
You can't hold me hostage
Time for me to move on
Good bye baby I'm gone
I'm gone
Gone
Gone
Gone
If you're gonna do the crime
Then you gotta do the time
Gone
Gone
Gone
Gone
You can't hold me hostage
Can't tie me up in chains
Not gonna make me stay
You had my heart but lost it
You tried controlling me
Nobody's on to me
Only sin in your eyes
From your lips only lies
You can't hold me hostage
Time for me to move on
Good bye baby I'm gone
English translation
Emotional blackmail
That's your specialty
It doesn't work for me
A double-faced joker
With an evil side
Like a Jekyll-Hyde
You won me over
But you couldn't deliver
You're just a taker disguised as a giver
You can't hold me hostage
Can't tie me up in chains
Not gonna make me stay
You had my heart but lost it
You tried controlling me
Nobody's on to me
Only sin in your eyes
From your lips only lies
You can't hold me hostage
Time for me to move on
Good bye baby I'm gone
I'm gone
Don't talk about ransom
'Cuz you ain't got enough
No, you can't buy my love
It's time for some truth now
And some consequence
At your expense
You bent my will
But you never could break it
I'm not a prisoner here
For your taking
You can't hold me hostage
Can't tie me up in chains
Not gonna make me stay
You had my heart but lost it
You tried controlling me
Nobody's on to me
Only sin in your eyes
From your lips only lies
You can't hold me hostage
Time for me to move on
Good bye baby I'm gone
I'm gone
Gone
Gone
Gone
If you're gonna do the crime
Then you gotta do the time
Gone
Gone
Gone
Gone
You can't hold me hostage
Can't tie me up in chains
Not gonna make me stay
You had my heart but lost it
You tried controlling me
Nobody's on to me
Only sin in your eyes
From your lips only lies
You can't hold me hostage
Time for me to move on
Good bye baby I'm gone