Cover art for With or Without You/Stop and Stare (Live) by OneRepublic

With or Without You/Stop and Stare (Live)

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With or Without You/Stop and Stare (Live) Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Sleight of hand and twist of fate
On a bed of nails she makes me wait
And I wait
I can't live
With or without you
With or without you

[Verse 2]
This town is colder now, I think it's sick of us
It's time to make our move, I'm shakin' off the rust
I've got my heart set on anywhere but here
I'm staring down myself, counting up the years

[Pre-Chorus]
Steady hands just take the wheel
Every glance is killing me
Time to make one last appeal
For the life I lead

[Chorus]
Stop and stare
I think I'm moving but I go nowhere
Yeah, I know that everyone gets scared
But I've become what I can't be, oh
Stop and stare
You start to wonder why you're here not there
And you'd give anything to get what's fair
But fair ain't what you really need
Oh, can you see what I see?
[Verse 3]
They're tryin' to come back, all my senses push
Untie the weight bags, I never thought I could

[Pre-Chorus]
Steady feet, don't fail me now
I'm gonna run 'til you can't walk
Something pulls my focus out
And I'm standing down

[Chorus]
Stop and stare
I think I'm moving but I go nowhere
Yeah, I know that everyone gets scared
But I've become what I can't be, oh
Stop and stare
You start to wonder why you're here not there
And you'd give anything to get what's fair
But fair ain't what you really need
Oh, you don't need

[Outro]
Stop and stare
I think I'm moving but I go nowhere
Yeah, I know that everyone gets scared
I've become what I can't be
Oh, do you see what I see?

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At this live Zermott Unplugged performance sometime in 2011 of the second single (Stop and Stare) off their debut album, Dreaming Out Loud, OneRepublic introduced it with the beginning lines of U2’s With or Without You.

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2011
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