I'm tugging at my hair
I'm pulling at my clothes
I'm trying to keep my cool
I know it shows
I'm staring at my feet
My cheeks are turning red
I'm searching for the words inside my head

Cause I'm feeling nervous
Trying to be so perfect
Cause I know you're worth it
You're worth it
Yeah

[Chorus]
If I could say what I want to say
I'd say I want to blow you, away
Be with you every night
Am I squeezing you too tight
If I could say what I want to see
I want to see you go down
On one knee
Marry me today
Guess, I'm wishing my life away
With these things I'll never say

It don't do me any good
It's just a waste of time
What use is it to you
What's on my mind
If ain't coming out
We're not going anywhere
So why can't I just tell you that I care

Cause I'm feeling nervous
Trying to be so perfect
Cause I know you're worth it
You're worth it
Yeah

[Chorus]

What's wrong with my tongue
These words keep slipping away
I stutter, I stumble
Like I've got nothing to say

Cause I'm feeling nervous
Trying to be so perfect
Cause I know you're worth it
You're worth it
Yeah

Guess I'm wishing my life away with these things I'll never say
If I could say what I want to say
I'd say I want to blow you, away
Be with you every night

Am I squeezing you too tight
If I could say what I want to see
I want to see you go down
On one knee

Marry me today
Guess I'm wishing my life away
With these things I'll never say
These things I'll never say



Lyrics submitted by daniela_m_a

Track duration: 03:44

"Things I'll Never Say" as written by Lauren/spock Christy

Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group

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    General Comment:I never realized this before, but it makes sense. "If I could say what I want to say, I'd say I want to blow you...away. Be with you every night. Am I squeezing you too tight? If I could say what I want to see, I want to see you go down...on one knee." Double entendre maybe?
    Flag Lardarschon April 25, 2013   Link
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    My Interpretation:Well, I think this song gets really interesting when you find out which are the things she'll never say to that guy :D Avril is awesome, and i love it when she makes me thinkk alott to understand her songss :)
    Flag avrilcyruson December 02, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:I can relate to this song kinda, when i was in my last 2 years of high school i really liked this one girl and she liked me i think and we did chat every known and then but not proply, and i really wanted to ask her out luckily i had the bollocks to get a picture with her at the prom but nothing else and i really wanted to ask her out that night and if i'd of gone to the afterparty i probly wud of done, but still it wasn't meant to be :), plus she's with some one now and thats that

    Plenty more fish in the sea i hope

    <3 You Avril :)
    Flag TommyMikeWilliamson June 18, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:Yeah it's totally about really being into someone. I feel like that lmao
    Flag WhenItRains7on August 18, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:I absolutely love this song, and I think it relates with a lot of people. But I wish you (you know who you are) would stop interpreting it as something "dirty". I'm sure Avril Lavigne wrote this song with innocence and young love on her mind and you're ruining it for the rest of us.
    Flag mcwwon July 27, 2011   Link
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    Memory:I feel just like this. Every day. I have a huge crush on the boy at my bus stop, the freshman in my math class (we're all sophomores). But he doesn't know. And I have a crippling stutter whenever I don't have a script in front of me, especially when I'm talking to a guy.
    "What's wrong with my tongue
    These words keep slipping away
    I stutter
    I stumble
    Like I've got nothing to say"
    That's so very me.

    This song has made me cry once or twice because when I like someone, when I really like them (and I do not use the word love because I do not believe that we have enough maturity in high school to truly understand the consequences and meaning of love) I can never tell them that I do. My last crush was another one of my best friends and it was the day before the last day of school before I could pluck up the courage to even give him a note. I can only hope that I'll be able to tell him before it's too late, before school ends and we're all gone for the summer, and then in a couple of years, for college, or before he gets a girlfriend.

    The only thing that I can't really relate with, at least not too well is:

    "I'm feeling nervous
    Trying to be so perfect
    Cause I know you're worth it
    You're worth it"

    I don't want someone I need to change for. But I'd be almost willing to change for him. I trust him.
    Flag Artygal12on November 30, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:For the longest time I thought she was singing "If I could say what I wanna see, I wanna see you go down on me."

    Which, of course, is intentional. :D
    Flag WeedBelieveron October 16, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:This song have made me cry a million times, and I know that I'll never stop loving it. I've known a guy since I started school (maybe even before that!), and we have never like been best friends or so, but we've known each other so long that we're like a brother and sister, haha xD But now when I've grown older, my feelings for him has really changed, I really think I love him. But I just can't tell him, because we've never been THAT close, I've just been watching him from the side... And the worst of it all is that I know that when we end school... we'll probably never meet each other again... And he's going to live all his life... Happy... And without even knowing... All his life... Just because I never said anything...
    Flag Sarumion September 30, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:love this song (y) really sweet :D
    Flag elleennnxon October 28, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:I wanna blow you... away. I wanna see you go down... on one knee. When I first heard that, I thought it was absolutely hilarious. I still think it's pretty funny. Definitely intentional -- I'm sure how anyone could think that it's not.
    Flag 8394147on August 17, 2009   Link

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