The way it was
The Killers
Battle Born (2012)


[Intro]

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[Verse 1]

             
  I drove thro

           
ugh the desert

          
 last night
             
  I carried th

           
e weight of ou

            
r last fight
             
Elvis singing 

           
"Don't Be Crue

              
l" and I wonde

  
r if you feel 

it too
             
It's like we'r

         
e going under.
           
   Somewhere o

            
utside the lon

             
ely Esmeralda 

        
County line,
              
The question o

             
f my heart cam

          
e to my mind:


[Chorus]

             
If I go on wit

   
h you by my si

de,
           
Can it be the 

             
way it was whe

     
n we met?
             
Did you forget

              
 all about tho

    
se golden nigh

ts?


[Verse 2]

          
  Maybe a thie

              
f stole your h

    
eart
             
  Or maybe we 

             
just drifted a


part.
            
I remember dri

ving 
             
  In my daddy'

           
s car to the a

          
irfield, blank

et on the hood

, 
             
Backs against 

     
the windshield

.
           
   Back then t

              
his thing was 

           
running on mom

              
entum, love an

   
d trust.
              
That paradise 

             
is buried in t

    
he dust.


[Chorus]

             
If I go on wit

   
h you by my si

de,
           
Can it be the 

             
way it was whe

     
n we met?
             
Did you forget

              
 all about tho

    
se golden nigh

ts?
(The way it was, it was)


[Bridge]

           
   All of our 

              
plans are fall

         
ing through.
           
   Sometimes a

              
 dream, it don

          
't come true.


[Instrumental]

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[Verse 3]

         
Darling. Darli

ng
              
(If we go on c

      
an it be)
           
Can it be the 

             
way it was whe

     
n we met?
             
Did you forget

              
 all about the

    
m golden night

s?


[Chorus]

             
If I go on wit

   
h you by my si

de,
           
Can it be the 

    
way it was?
             
My heart is tr

              
ue, girl, it's

  
 just you
             
I'm thinking o

 
f
              
Can it be the 

        
way it was?


[Outro]

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 (Maybe a thie

             
f stole your h

#    
eart)

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