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What About Now

Daughtry
Track 12 on Daughtry 
Nov. 21, 20061 viewer20.7K views

What About Now Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Shadows fill an empty heart
As love is fading
From all the things that we are
And are not saying
Can we see beyond the scars
And make it to the dawn?


[Verse 2]
Change the colors of the sky
And open up to
The ways you made me feel alive
The ways I loved you
For all the things that never died
To make it through the night
Love will find you

[Chorus]
What about now? What about today?
What if you're makin' me all that I was meant to be?
What if our love never went away?
What if it's lost behind words we could never find?
Baby, before it's too late
What about now?


[Verse 3]
The sun is breakin' in your eyes
To start a new day
This broken heart can still survive
With a touch of your grace
As shadows fade into the light
I am by your side
Where love will find you
[Chorus]
What about now? What about today?
What if you're makin' me all that I was meant to be?
What if our love never went away?
What if it's lost behind words we could never find?
Baby, before it's too late
What about now?


[Bridge]
Now that we're here
Now that we've come this far
Just hold on
There is nothing to fear
For I am right beside you
For all my life, I am yours

[Chorus]
What about now? What about today?
What if you're makin' me all that I was meant to be?
What if our love never went away?
What if it's lost behind words we could never find?
What about now? What about today?
What if you're makin' me all that I was meant to be?
What if our love never went away?
What if it's lost behind words we could never find?
Baby, before it's too late
Baby, before it's too late
Baby, before it's too late
What about now?

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Genius Annotation

This song is about a broken relationship. The more that the guy and the girl are not talking, the more the distance between them increases. The guy is saying that he needs the girl back in his life because she makes him feel alive and makes him all he’s meant to be. He says “what if our love never went away, what if it’s lost behind words we could never find?” The guy means that he doesn’t believe the love will go away and that it’s only their silence that is distancing them. He talks about how far they’ve come and that he’ll always be beside the girl. The guy says that they should mend their relationship before it’s too late because there’s still hope. Since, they’ve come so far, he says that they shouldn’t fear because he’ll be right by her and maybe they’ll mend their relationship.

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