The night I met you I said
I'd never want to die
If I had a boy like you
'Cause how could death improve
On that? And I want it known
Let the record show
That for all my talk of love
I never once knew what it was
Until it left
Left me here
So alive
But without you by my side
And that's what I get
I spent my love on something with an expiration date
From sea to sea I'm sailing
The memories are fading
But I always see your face
Dancing in the waves
And now what's there to say?
So let the record play
Because all that comes to pass
Has nothing on the past
It seems
Now in my dreams
I'm the queen
Of everything I've lost
But that's the cost
When you spend your love on something
With an expiration date
The night I met you I said
I'd never want to die
If I had a boy like you
I hadn't thought it through
And now the season turned
And still there's nothing learned
Because I've still got your letters
And, yes, I read them twice tonight
I am here
So alive
But without you by my side
And that's what I get
I spent my love on something with an expiration date
I spent my love on something with an expiration date
Spent all my love on something with an expiration date