Oh
Hey

Every girl's gotta go through it
And every man's gotta go through it
It's this thing called love
Mm listen to me now listen to me

I still remember the day
That you said you was a bad boy
Man I should of listened
When you said you was a bad boy (bad boy)
You took control of me
I thought you would change for me
Everything's different now
Reminiscing ain't the same boy
How I let you come and hurt me like this (this boy)
I'm open now
I wanna get away but your forcing me to stay

Love
I thought you had my back this time (this time)
But man I'm wrong this time (this time)
It's this thing called (thought you had my back)
Love
I thought you had my back this time (this time)
But man I'm wrong this time
It's this thing called love

I loved you for your ways
But your ways hurt me bad boy
Hurt me so bad
Why you wanna see me sad boy
I'm tired of crying over you
But I miss you so much I don't know what to do

Seems that I gotta move on
Live life without ya but
Everytime someone comes around to talk about you
I get feelings inside again
I wanna be right back by your side again

Love
I thought you had my back this time (this time)
But man I'm wrong this time (this time)
It's this thing called (thought you had my back)
Love
I thought you had my back this time (this time)
But man I'm wrong this time
It's this thing called love

You got me yeah
Oh oh oh
You got me
Oh oh oh
You got me
Oh oh (and I don't know what to do) oh
Yeah yeah oh oh yeah (oh love)
I thought you had my back
I'm so wrong I'm so wrong
Love (love love) oh love

I opened up my heart
Even though it's so long
I love you so much I
Thought you had my back

Love

Yeah
It's all good though
Sometimes in life you know
Situations come your way
You just gotta make good decisions man

You know
You gotta know your focus in life
And if love is your focus
Then man pay attention

Oh oh oh
You got me yeah
I'm so stuck
Right here


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Love, I Thought You Had My Back Lyrics as written by Clarence Jr. Johnson Ralph Larry Eskridge

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    Pretty self explanatory. She gave her all to a man that wasn't the best for her.. thinking it could be good. but it turned out to be bad... and she got her heart broken..

    aboutagirl:)on November 21, 2008   Link
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    I totally agree with you. She thought love had her back this time around when she fell in love with this dude, however love didn't, and her greatest fear came through. Which is that her heart got broken.

    Jeminipriinc3zzon July 18, 2010   Link

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