You take me for a ride and I don't even know the setup
Get into a fight just to make the sex better
You got a hold of me but there ain't nothing here that's holding you down
I believed in this except it wasn't getting better
You got me in the middle but I never found the center
Even when you know what I know it's not stopping you now

I can't always see what's in front of me
No I can hardly breathe suffocating me bleeding it out
All over the ground

Tell me when it's over
Wake me when I'm sober
The scars too hard to hide
I should've known better
If only I could be strong enough to see that it's over
I wish I'd never met you
'Cause you were supposed to be coming back to me
Where are you now?
I should've known better

I got a new plan but it ain't nothing but a mirror
Of everything we had just before you became a winner
The love the lie is nothing but a memory now

I can't always see what's in front of me
No I can hardly breathe suffocating me bleeding it out
All over the ground

Tell me when it's over
Wake me when I'm sober
The scars too hard to hide
I should've known better
If only I could be strong enough to see that it's over
I wish I'd never met you
'Cause you were supposed to be coming back to me
Where are you now?
I should've known better

You take me for a ride and I don't even know the setup
Get into a fight just to make the sex better
You got a hold of me but there ain't nothing here that's holding you down
I believed in this except it wasn't getting better
You got me in the middle but I never found the center
Even when you know what I know it's not stopping you now

I can't always see what's in front of me
No I can hardly breathe suffocating me bleeding it out
All over the ground

Tell me when it's over
Wake me when I'm sober
The scars too hard to hide
I should've known better
If only I could be strong enough to see that it's over
I wish I'd never met you
'Cause you were supposed to be coming back to me
Where are you now?

Tell me when it's over
Wake me when I'm sober
The scars too hard to hide
I should've known better
If only I could be strong enough to see that it's over
I wish I'd never met you
'Cause you were supposed to be coming back to me
Where are you now?
I should've known better

So wake me when I'm sober
The scars too hard to hide
I should've known better
If only I could be strong enough to see that it's over
I wish I'd never loved you
'Cause you were supposed to be coming back to me
Where are you now?


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Should've Known Better Lyrics as written by Emma Anzai Skidd Mills

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    General Comment

    I really like this song.

    It really struck a chord with me because this girl I was really in love with told me her mom didn't like me, so she had to break up with me, and that she would date some other guys because her mom wanted her to, and then she would come back to me. But now she's still leading me on like crazy, but this guy she's been dating for a while is asking her to marry him, and she's giving no signs of breaking up with him, and it's putting me through a lot of stress.

    The part of the song when it's like "If only I could be strong enough to see that it's over, I wish I never loved you, 'cause you were supposed to be coming back to me, where are you now?" really summed up that whole situation.

    The_Boogeymanon December 27, 2009   Link
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    Memory

    my life in one song

    TRADOon January 19, 2010   Link
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    General Comment

    "you get into a fight to make the sex better" best line in the song because its true

    Patriotfan101on October 14, 2010   Link

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