Released: March 31, 2017
Songwriter: Arlissa Patrick Mascall Jamie Scott Mark Taylor Nelly Furtado
Producer: Mark Taylor John Congleton
[Verse 1]
Shot down by your bullets
They shatter my faith and my bones
If you listen, the words, they hurt
They creep right under my skin, they cut so deep
[Chorus]
Can't you understand
I don't want battles, battles, battles?
And if you lay them in my hand
I won't fight battles, battles, battles
Oh, tell me why we work so hard to break these bones
Can we try to lay down
These sticks and stones?
Sticks and stones
[Verse 2]
We crash and fall together, so sad
We don't remember why we are tearing us apart
But I can feel the cracks, the cracks in my heart, whoa
[Chorus]
Can't you understand
I don't want battles, battles, battles?
And if you lay them in my hand
I won't fight battles, battles, battles
Oh, tell me why we work so hard to break these bones
Can we try to lay down
These sticks and stones?
Sticks and stones
[Bridge]
Why does it have to be so hard to surrender?
When we got nothing left, nothing left to lose, lose
[Chorus]
Can't you understand
I don't want battles, battles, battles?
And if you lay them in my hand
I won't fight battles, battles, battles
Oh, tell me why we work so hard to break these bones
Can we try to lay down
These sticks and stones?
Sticks and stones
Sticks and stones
Sticks and stones
Shot down by your bullets
They shatter my faith and my bones
If you listen, the words, they hurt
They creep right under my skin, they cut so deep
[Chorus]
Can't you understand
I don't want battles, battles, battles?
And if you lay them in my hand
I won't fight battles, battles, battles
Oh, tell me why we work so hard to break these bones
Can we try to lay down
These sticks and stones?
Sticks and stones
[Verse 2]
We crash and fall together, so sad
We don't remember why we are tearing us apart
But I can feel the cracks, the cracks in my heart, whoa
[Chorus]
Can't you understand
I don't want battles, battles, battles?
And if you lay them in my hand
I won't fight battles, battles, battles
Oh, tell me why we work so hard to break these bones
Can we try to lay down
These sticks and stones?
Sticks and stones
[Bridge]
Why does it have to be so hard to surrender?
When we got nothing left, nothing left to lose, lose
[Chorus]
Can't you understand
I don't want battles, battles, battles?
And if you lay them in my hand
I won't fight battles, battles, battles
Oh, tell me why we work so hard to break these bones
Can we try to lay down
These sticks and stones?
Sticks and stones
Sticks and stones
Sticks and stones
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- Maneater
- Say It Right
- I’m Like a Bird
- All Good Things (Come to an End)
- Turn Off the Light
- Big Hoops (Bigger the Better)
- Try
- Do It
- Powerless (Say What You Want)
- Pipe Dreams
- Shit on the Radio (Remember the Days)
- Afraid
- Bucket List
- I Will Make U Cry
- Força
- Dar
- Be OK
- Somebody to Love
- Runaway
- Glow
- The Harder They Come
- Maneater (Peter Rauhofer Reconstruction Mix)
- Stars