"Let's Be Us Again" is a song recorded by American

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group

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. The song reached the Top 5 on the ''

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) charts. It was released in March 2004 as the first single and title track from their album of the same name. Then-lead singer

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co-wrote the song with Maribeth Derry and

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Content

The song is a mid-tempo mostly accompanied by

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. Its narrator is a man who has done something wrong in his relationship. He says hurtful things, and makes his partner cry, and then he realized how close he comes to losing them, and asks them if he can make things normal again, and if they'll forgive him.

Chart performance

The song debuted at number 43 on the

chart dated March 6, 2004. It charted for 21 weeks on that chart, and peaked at number 4 on the chart dated June 26, 2004, in addition to peaking at number 38 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100.

Year-end charts

References

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