Cameo - Back and Forth
Time: 2:12
Take stabs, dip and dab, forever tryin' to find your way
It's a sellers lament for all the love you spent
You must have thought it was a bottomless pit

complaint; express grief verbally
Heard in 48 songs (37M+ combined views) — most famously in "Back and Forth" by Cameo.
Updated July 25, 2026
Time: 2:12
Take stabs, dip and dab, forever tryin' to find your way
It's a sellers lament for all the love you spent
You must have thought it was a bottomless pit

Time: 5:15
Where did it go?
Broken voiced lament to call us home
This is the end of every song we sing

Time: 1:24
My, my, my, my heroine
Lost in her lament, hell or heaven sent
Jesus make my dying bed

Time: 1:27
Unleash hell, do not repent
Warfare grants us no lament
Let your weapons slash and tear

Time: 1:12
Cottage Grove shade, invite me
I will bow down (Dido's lament)
Lord of the ancient waters

Time: 1:55
All I see is departure
Mourner's lament, but it's me who's the martyr
♪

Time: 0:37
Give dirt to me
I got lament
This human form

Time: 3:47
I guess that's just me, honey, I guess that's how I'm built
I try to write you a love song but it comes out a lament
I guess that's just me, honey, I guess that's how I'm built

Time: 1:50
But I gave it to the Peach, 'cause he's got hair!
Feeling a deep sense of loss, Larry stumbles back and laments
Not fair, oh, my hairbrush

Time: 0:38
I'll tell you 'bout the world that we'll invent
Wanton world without lament
Enterprise, expedition

Time: 0:56
Rest comes easy to the guiltless
The vampire laments as he prays for the sun
Doom, despair, tragedy are the tools of the trade

Time: 1:36
Patterns of my life I thought adorned me
Revealing hurtful shame and deep lament
Overwhelming sorrow now absorbs me

Time: 0:52
I could have done
No time for sad lament
A wasted life is bitter spent

Time: 2:34
There's a ringing in my ear that's heaven-sent
There's a beast out on the ruins, some broken down lover's lament
It goes on and on but it won't go away

Time: 3:24
♪
Every lament is a love song
Yesterday, yesterday

Time: 4:45
This is just a modern rock song
This is just a sorry lament
We're four boys in corduroys

Time: 5:01
Skull silly wagon and justice and perverse and reverse the inverse and inverse and inverse (Or remembered at nights when the eye is alone)
Bluebelly catalog, questionable earnings, hustler's lament and the rest will in due cry (But to skewer and ravage and savage and split)
To battle and scramble and browbeat and hurt while chewing on minstrels and choking on dirt (With the grace of a diamond, bellicose wit)

Time: 0:56
And make something out of the rain
Raise up a glass to lament the dead
And love like you've never been hurt

Time: 0:19
Washed away by storms
To graves of cynical lament
Dirty canvases

Time: 3:22
And speckled sills
Lament repent oh mortal you (oh mortal you)
So sad (hollow hills)

Time: 0:22
♪
The sound of cries and lament
Spiraling into this descent

Time: 0:30
A faint choir tenderly shaping
A lament a hollow refuge
In the blood of the twinkling sky

Time: 1:54
In His hands tonight
Humanistic lies lament
The holocaust is imminent

Time: 0:53
I'm just a prisoner
Mending the wounds, the wounds of lament
The knife cut deep, deep into my heart

Time: 0:29
Morning always seems too stale to justify
Lament blossoms, hours, minutes of our lives
Broken thoughts run through your empty mind

Time: 0:20
On fields of war
Trapped in lament
To the poet's core

Time: 0:42
(It's easy) to confuse grand design with life's repercussions
Lament not your vanquished fantasy
It's only destiny

Time: 4:41
Shall I think of honour as lies
Or lament it's aged slow demise?
Shall I stand as a total stranger

Time: 0:54
Sing forever
In the quiet I lament
Every nail, my sin did buy

Time: 0:50
In stillness, in sorrow
Returns that softly sighing lament
And just as the smile's returning

Time: 1:22
Watch lights fade from every womb
Bedsitter people look back and lament
Another day's useless energy's spent

Time: 1:59
I'll be your struggle to be sane
Exploited, lament
And the places you never went

Time: 1:19
Forth they went together
Through the rude winds wild lament
And the bitter weather

Time: 4:40
Oh hold your tongue my daughter dear, be still and be content.
There's men enough in Galloway, you need not sore lament.
Oh there's men enough in Galloway, alas there's none for me

Time: 0:38
♪
Gettin' up and goin' is a sweet lament
Doin' what you've gotta do is all you got

Time: 2:13
A lonely grave, and soon forgot
Only wind and leaves lament his mournful song
Yet they shout his epitaph out clear

Time: 0:45
The night has stopped calling
I will not lament with the sky
No longer feel night on the inside

Time: 0:00
In this perfection I lament her beauty
Her voice a sour note in this bitter serenade

Time: 1:06
Can you imagine what it's like?
Lovers lament
General dissent

Time: 0:37
You're sharing another's charms
With a sad lament my dreams are faded like a broken melody
While the gods of love look down and laugh

Time: 0:16
Family man
He's a family man, his wife laments
Never broken any of the ten commandments

Time: 0:40
Bring me your lips, warm as the sun.
Hear my lament, oh, my beloved,
Come to my arms, oh, wonderful one.

Time: 0:38
Off to town dear Darcey went
But woe is me, oh lament
Before a dragon penny was spent

Time: 1:01
Like a minor lament in my ears
♪

Time: 0:59
To leave me here alone
Well, I may lie, lament and cry
And you'll, you'll not hear my moan

Time: 3:11
Fighting furiously on a battlefield, once a javelin pierced his shield
Soldiers with a loud lament bore him bleeding to his tent
Groaning from his tortured side, "Pain is hard to bear", he cried

Time: 0:39
I heard the song of the spheres
Like a minor lament in my ears
I hadn't the heart left to pray

Time: 1:04
One lonely bird is singing
Lower the hood hung of his lament
Dash him down on cold cement
