Artist: Maroon 5

    You got in so late

    It’s Sunday morning

    Said that you were leaving

    Letting go of us

    Where did we go wrong, oh

    And now you say you’re leaving California

    Gotta head back East and want to leave tonight

    Pack your things and go, oh

    But if you run now

    Wait I won’t be alright

    Even if the sun crashes into us

    I won’t let go, I won’t let go

    And I can be your light

    Stay with me tonight

    I won’t let go, I won’t let go

    Oh, oh, oh

    Oh, oh, yeah yeah yeah

    Pick up all the pieces

    Fight to hold on

    Put them back together, do it all for love, oh

    Never let it go

    Oh yeah, hm

    ’Cause I don’t need a reason

    Just to hold ya

    One more of your teasing

    Look you in the eyes, oh

    Oh baby please don’t go

    Oh yeah

    But if you run now

    Wait I won’t be alright

    Even if the sun crashes into us

    I won’t let go, I won’t let go

    And I can be your light

    Stay with me tonight

    I won’t let go, I won’t let go

    Oh, oh, oh

    Oh, oh, yeah yeah yeah

    Now you say you’re leaving California

    Background

    The guys of Maroon 5 are unapologetic about their pop-ness and it’s awesome. “Leaving California” is the sixth track from “V,” the band’s fifth studio album that was released Aug. 29. It reminds listeners a little of The Police’s “Every Breath You Take,” not in sound, but in content. A few beats faster than a ballad, the song finds Levine on the wrong end of a breakup and his girl is headed to the east coast. It hits your ears like a love song, but when read, it comes off a little like a stalker ballad.