One, two, three, four
Tell me that you love me more
Sleepless long nights
That is what my youth was for

Old teenage hopes are alive at your door
Left you with nothing but they want some more

Oh, uh oh, you're changing your heart
Oh, uh oh, you know who you are

Sweetheart, bitter heart now I can tell you apart
Cozy and cold, put the horse before the cart

Those teenage hopes who have tears in their eyes
Too scared to own up to one little lie

Oh, uh oh, you're changing your heart
Oh, uh oh, you know who you are

One, two, three, four, five, six, nine, or ten
Money can't buy you back the love that you had then
One, two, three, four, five, six, nine, or ten
Money can't buy you back the love that you had then

Oh, uh oh, you're changing your heart
Oh, uh oh, you know who you are
Oh, uh oh, you're changing your heart
Oh, uh oh, you know who you are
Who you are

For the teenage boys
They're breaking your heart
For the teenage boys
They're breaking your heart



Lyrics submitted by lighthouse12

Track duration: 03:04

"1234" as written by Leslie Feist, Sally Mary Seltmann, Peter Hoffman

Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, EMI Music Publishing

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    General Comment:i feel like this song has been about my life for years now. like most things in life, it's ironic how cheerful this song sounds but its meaning to me couldn't be more opposite. i am in my first and only romantic relationship, which started in high school. it has been 10 years now, and naturally things aren't as great as they used to be. we were so in love, what happened? a lot of things happened in between, including my bf cheating on me 5 years ago. i took him back and somehow we are still together. i have tried to end it for good too many times, but we always got back together. but the bottom line is that deep down i know i will never have full trust in him again. and the one little lie i have yet to own up to is that it will never work out...we both have to move on. but i keep changing my heart, and he keeps sticking around. but we've both become indifferent, and live quite an empty life together. no amount of clothes, shoes, bags and things could make it better. the worst thing is that i am paranoid he is cheating on me again. and he isn't making me feel any better about it. and all this time i've always known the right thing to do. i am such a mess, i am mostly bitter. but i've moved out with him and made things more complicated. i don't know what to do. i just want both of us to be happy again. and i think that means both of us need to let go and move on. i feel so depressed.
    Flag angelfishhon June 06, 2013   Link
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    General Comment:I didn't find any other her other songs to be listenable.One hit wondering?
    Flagged emuInAmuumuuon June 01, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:This song means so much to me. I love a girl beyond anything anyone could imagine. We've been dating for over a year now and I want to spend the rest of my life with her but she is very indecisive and changes her heart it seems. I really wished that she would realize you can't get this kind of love often, it is the rare gem of life.
    Flag KongFuzion May 28, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:Written by "Sally Seltmann" kinda for Feist apparently? I wonder how it was before she edited them or if she even did....
    Flag wereqheton January 20, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:This Song is Awesome
    Flag LuckyLighton January 24, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:this never gets old.
    Flag xxColleenieeon April 23, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:i think she skips numbers
    to example the way we rush in our youth
    + not, too
    Flag AlecsPenon February 21, 2010   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:i think she skips numbers
    to example the way we rush in our youth
    + not, too
    Flag AlecsPenon February 21, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:isn't it "they want some more" at the beginning, instead of "they wanted more"?
    Flag keiskleiriana1on August 09, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:When I hear this I think about being more jaded and vanilla as we grow up. There are obvious hints at the past her and a certain sense of nostalgia.

    In the first verse she talks about how foolish and unpredictable "teenage" love is. When we are kids we get caught up in the moment. Our hearts are pure because they haven't been broken yet. Because of this our relationships are ruled by passion and emotion rather then thought and logic, hence the staying up all night.

    The second verse, if you will, is presumably describing how we are when we are older. We are jaded and broken, therefore not being to comprehend how we fell (she doesn't know if he heart is bitter or sweet). We are cozy and cold, our passion is gone and we look at relationships with more logic and reason then in our youth, we "put the horse before the cart".

    The chorus comments on here while we grow up we never forget who we really are. It seems to suggest that who we were when we were kids is much better then the people we have become. We still believed in true love. Our hearts had not changed. She further reinforces this with "money can't buy you back the love that you had then". We grow up, get careers and make money but what is life without love? The money we make wont matter, regardless of how important we claim it is, because it cannot buy us back our young, love filled heart.
    Flag triplec1988on July 31, 2009   Link

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