The One I Gave My Heart To Lyrics

[Intro]
Hey, oh
Yeah

[Chorus]
How could the one I gave my heart to
Break my heart so bad?
How could the one who made me happy
Make me feel so sad?
Won't somebody tell me, so I can understand
If you love me, how could you hurt me like that?
How could the one I gave my world to
Throw my world away?
How could the one who said, "I love you"
Say the things you say?
How could the one I was so true to just tell me lies?
How could the one I gave my heart to
Break this heart of mine, tell me

[Verse]
How could you be so cold to me?
When I gave you everything
All my love, all I had inside
How could you just walk out the door?
How could you not love me anymore?
I thought we had forever, I can't understand
How could the one I shared my dreams with
Take my dreams from me?
How could the love that brought such pleasure
Bring such misery?
Won't somebody tell me, somebody tell me please?
If you love me, how could you do that to me, tell me
Whoa, hey
[Bridge]
Yeah, how could you just walk out the door?
How could you not love me anymore?
I thought we had forever
Can't understand
No I can't understand

[Chorus]
How could the one I gave my heart to (Oh)
Break my heart so bad? (Break my heart)
How could the one who made me happy (You made me so happy)
Make me feel so sad? (Oh, yeah)
Won't somebody tell me? (Won't they tell me?)
So I can understand (So I can understand)
If you love me, how could you hurt me like that? (How could you hurt me?)
How could the one I gave my world to
Throw my world away? (Throw my world away)
How could the one who said, "I love you" (You said you love me)
Say the things you say? (But you didn't love me, oh)
How could the one I was so true to (Yeah, you did)
Just tell me lies? (You told me lies, oh yeah)

[Outro]
How could the one I gave my heart to (Ooh)
Make me feel so sad? (Hey)
How could the one I gave my heart to
Break my heart so bad?
Tell me (tell me, tell me)
Ooh, tell me

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Aaliyah sings a tale of a failed trust-fall relationship in this love ballad off of her sophomore album One In a Million. The track centers around Aaliyah’s questioning of a former lover that left her after promising to love her.

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What did Aaliyah say about "The One I Gave My Heart To"?
Genius Answer

It showed her vocal range, and I know a couple of people thought she wouldn’t be able to do that song. I thought, ‘No, she’ll be able to do that.’ I remember being in the studio when she was singing it and hitting those notes and it was just beautiful. It just showed another side to her. The octave goes up in the end and some of that was what I written into the song, but she took it somewhere else. She put her own thing in it and she did some ad-libs. That’s when someone is really good. I liken it to an actor, to someone writing a script and if they walk in, Meryl Streep or whoever reads their script they’re going to change a little bit of it or make it their own because naturally they’re great. It’s the same thing with a singer with a song. You’re giving it to them a certain way they’re going to take it to another level because of what they do. That’s what she did. She not only rose to it, she went beyond it. She nailed that song and it was amazing what she did. It’s still one of my favorite records."

Diane Warren

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Recorded At
Silent Sound Studios (Atlanta, GA)
Release Date
August 27, 1996
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