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[Verse 1: Ariana Grande]
Will I ever love the same way again? (Way again)
Will I ever love somebody like the way I did you?
Never thought you'd be so damn hard to replace
I swear it don't need to be this way
If I can't have you, is love completely off the table?
Do I sit this one out and wait for the next life? (Next life)
Am I too cold? Am I not nice?
Might not be quite yet healed already
Should I be goin' too steady? (Too steady)
But I just wanna know is love completely off the table?

[Chorus: Ariana Grande]
Will you be there?
Can I still love you? (Can I, can I)
Not yet healed or ready (Not ready)
Should I be goin' too steady? (Too steady)
Just wanna know is love completely off the table?

[Verse 2: The Weeknd, Ariana Grande & Both]
I'll wait for you
Even though it always feels like I'll be number two
To someone you can't hold anymore
If you let me in, I'm ready to give you what I couldn't before
'Cause I got you, girl, (Cause I got you, boy)
Let me help you through it
You're trying to fill the void with a couple boys
I can see right through it (You can see right through it)
I can love you harder than I did before
Was in a dark place back then
I was toxic, then I was toxic to someone else
[Chorus: Ariana Grande & The Weeknd]
Will you be there? (Will you be there?) (Yes, I will be there for you)
Can I still love you? (Yes, I been hurt before, before)
Not yet healed or ready (Not ready)
Should I be goin' too steady? (Too steady, no, no)
Just wanna know is love completely off the table?

[Bridge: Ariana Grande]
So can you hold me?
If I let you, can you prove it to me?
'Cause I need you to calm me down, babe
Gotta get out of my head
Tryna be here from this bed
Just wanna know, just wanna know, know, know, baby
Can you touch it like you believe in it, baby? (Babe)
Let me think you never gonna leave on me, baby
'Cause I ain't her and you ain't him, thankfully
But it's gon' be hard to let someone else in again, bae

[Chorus: Ariana Grande & The Weeknd]
Will you be there? (Yes, I will be there for you)
Can I still love you? (Yes, I been hurt before, before)
Not yet healed or ready (Not ready)
Should I be goin' too steady? (Too steady, no, no)
Just wanna know is love completely off the table?
[Outro]
Will you be there?

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The “off the table (demo)” is a demo of Ariana Grande and The Weeknd’s 2020 collaboration, “off the table”, that was released as track 5 on Grande’s 2020 sixth studio album, Positions. The demo leaked on June 17, 2023, alongside “safety net (demo)”.

It has extra adlibs in the second verse and some adlibs from the released version are missing in the bridge. Also the last 5 lines of The Weeknd’s verse, are not included in this demo.

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