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I Have Given Up Lyrics by Niall McDowell

2023

[Verse 1]
I always wonder if I'll figure it out
By the time I have decided to give it up
And then I'm thinking that they'll play my song
In a local bar after I have given up
And I've settled down with a new love
And I'll turn to my lover and I'll say
"This song they're playing, this one's mine"
And I wrote it when I was 19
When I had friends and I had lovers
And people who I thought that I
Would have in my life 'til I was old
And I was bitter and I was blue
But that wasn't true
[Chorus]
I'm giving up on love
Giving on trying
Giving up trying to find
Find the people that they want me to talk to
'Cause thеy say they understand
But they don't undеrstand
And I don't want to be an old man
[Verse 2]
I always wonder if I'll figure life out
When I'm 25 and my dreams have died
And that's all because something didn't feel right
And then I'm thinking that I'll figure it all out
In a job that I hate with a song that I love
But that seems unjust
[Verse 3]
So I'll turn to my mother
And I'll say this life I'm living, this ones mine
And I'll turn my brother and my sister
And my nephew and niece now that we're all alone
I don't want to be 35 with no more love in my life
When I have given up
'Cause I am giving up
[Chorus]
I'm giving up on love
Giving on trying
Giving up trying to find
Find the people that they want me to talk to
'Cause they say they understand
But they don't understand
And I don't want to be an old man
I don't want to be an old man
He never got to be an old man
I don't want to be an old man
[Outro]
I'm giving up
I'm giving up
I'm giving up, oh
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Niall McDowell

Niall McDowell

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