When You Walk Away Lyrics

[Intro: Luke]
Cut me open, take my heart
So we'll never be apart
Don't you let it go to waste


[Verse 1: Luke, All]
Such a sentimental love in a cynical world
My feelings get the best of me (Uh-huh, uh-huh)
I messed it up before, so I'm almost pretty sure
My karma got the best of me (Uh-huh, uh-huh)

[Pre-Chorus: Luke & Ashton, Luke]
I'm bad at letting go
Won't you let me down easy?
I can't let you go, so

[Chorus: All]
(When you walk away)
Cut me open, take my heart
So we'll never be apart
Don't you let it go to waste

(When you walk away)
I can feel it in my bones
You don't love me anymore
Make it worth all of the pain
(When you walk away)

[Verse 2: Calum, All]
I've been dreamin' like a fool in a nightmare of a world
It's bringin' out the worst in me (Uh-huh, uh-huh)
Shook me to the core, my optimism floored
My karma got the worst of me (Uh-huh, uh-huh)

[Pre-Chorus: Calum & Ashton, Calum]
Bad at letting go
Won't you let me down easy?
I can't let you go, so

[Chorus: All]
(When you walk away)
Cut me open, take my heart
So we'll never be apart
Don't you let it go to waste

(When you walk away)
I can feel it in my bones
You don't love me anymore
Make it worth all of the pain
(When you walk away)


[Bridge: Calum]
I'm so bad at letting go
How do you make it look so easy?
I'm so bad at letting go
How do you make it look so easy?
[Chorus: All]
Cut me open, take my heart
So we'll never be apart
Don't you let it go to waste

(When you walk away)
I can feel it in my bones
You don't love me anymore
Make it worth all of the pain
(When you walk away)


[Outro: Michael, All]
I'm so bad at letting go
How do you make it look so easy?
(When you walk away)
I'm so bad at letting go
How do you make it look so easy?
(When you walk away)

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“When You Walk Away” is the seventeenth track on 5 Seconds of Summer’s third album, Youngblood, released on June 15th, 2018. It is available on the exclusive Target edition. The song is seemingly about the narrator’s inability to end things with his lover, even though he knows she no longer feels the same, begging her to ‘let him down easy’.

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