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A ballad of regret and longing, 'Mandy' finds Westlife dwelling on a love they let slip away. The song moves through memory and present ache with a steady hand: cold mornings after sleepless nights, the weight of choices made, the recognition of happiness only in its absence. The narrator stands at the edge of time, caught between the person they were and the person they've become, unable to shake the presence of someone who once steadied them. The chorus circles back to the central bargain, the asymmetry that haunts the song. Mandy gave without reservation; the narrator sent her away. Now, in the wreckage of that decision, there is only the plea to listen, the desperate hope that it is not too late to undo what has been undone. It is a song about the cost of taking love for granted, and the clarity that arrives too late.

"Mandy" is a single by Westlife, released 2003. Full lyrics are available below.

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Mandy

I remember all my life
Raining down as cold as ice
Shadows of a man
A face through a window
Crying in the night
The night goes into

Morning just another day
Happy people pass my way
Looking in their eyes
I see a memory
I never realized
How happy you made me
Oh, Mandy

When you came and you gave without taking
But I sent you away, oh Mandy
When you kissed me and stopped me from shaking
And I need you today, oh Mandy

I'm standing on the edge of time
I walked away when love was mine
Caught up in a world
Of uphill climbing
Tears are on my mind
Nothing is rhyming
Oh, Mandy

When you came and you gave without taking
But I sent you away, oh Mandy
When you kissed me and stopped me from shaking
And I need you today, oh Mandy

Yesterdays a dream
I faced the morning
Cryin' on the breeze
The pain is calling
Oh, Mandy

When you came and you gave without taking
But I sent you away, oh Mandy
When you kissed me and stopped me from shaking
And I need you today, oh Mandy

When you came and you gave without taking
But I sent you away, oh Mandy
When you kissed me and stopped me from shaking
And I need you

Oh Mandy, won't you listen to what I've got to say?
Oh Mandy, don't you let me throw it all away
Oh Mandy, won't you listen to what I've got to say?
And I need you today, oh Mandy

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