The brightest things fade the fastest Whoa, whoa, whoa I think that I was meant to be next to you, to you And you know I found the dust to be resilient And we’re the dirtiest of the dirt Every time we fall to pieces We build something new out of the hurt

But all I have is love, darling, all I have is love Some of the men will buy you diamonds and pearls And those are the things that mean a lot to some girls Mmm, oh yeah... Now they will take you places that you want to go And show you things that you've

We could, we could belong together (ARTPOP) ARTPOP, ARTPOP, ARTPOP My ARTPOP could mean anything Just do that thing that you do A hybrid can withstand these things My heart can beat with bricks and strings Come to me, in all your glamour and cruelty And

Now you're here and everything's changing Suddenly life means so much I can't wait to wake up tomorrow And find out this promise is true I will never have to go back to The day before you I had all but given up On finding the one that I could fall into

That I'm alright Can't say I'm sad to see you go Cause I'm not (No I'm not) Well I'm not With all the things we said And not a minute spent To think that we'd regret So we just take it back Forget the things we swore we meant

For I can't help falling in love with you Like a river flows surely to the sea Darling so it goes Some things are meant to be Take my hand, take my whole life too Wise men say only fools rush in But I can't help falling in love with you Shall I stay?

And finding out it's impossible to do Oh it's no use I can't unlove you I can't unthink about you I can't unfeel your touch I can't unhear all the words Unsay all the things That used to mean so much Wish I could unremember

For I can't help falling in love with you Like a river flows surely to the sea Darling so it goes Some things are meant to be Take my hand, take my whole life too Wise men say only fools rush in But I can't help falling in love with you Shall I stay?

I didn't mean to fall in love Didn't know you would've come tonight Didn't hang on long enough Didn't want to go and start a fight Didn't mean to go, go and fall in love And all I mean to say I can't go on the way things are How can I lead the way It

I won't let these little things slip out of my mouth I'm in love with you and all these little things Your hand fits in mine like it's made just for me But bear this mind it was meant to be And I'm joining up the dots with the freckles on your cheeks And