This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
What goes around comes back around
(Hey, my baby)
What goes around comes back around
(Hey, my baby)
I say, what goes around comes back around
(Hey, my baby)
What goes around comes back around
There was a time
I thought that you did everything right
No lies, no wrong
Boy, I must've been out of my mind
So when I think of the time that I almost loved you
You showed your ass and I, I saw the real you
Thank God you blew it
I thank God I dodged a bullet
I'm so over you
So, baby, good lookin' out
I wanted you bad
I'm so through with that
'Cause honestly, you turned out to be the
Best thing I never had
You turned out to be the
Best thing I never had
And I'm gon' always be the best thing you never had
Oh yeah, I bet it sucks to be you right now
So sad, you're hurt
Boo hoo, oh, did you expect me to care?
You don't deserve my tears
I guess that's why they ain't there
When I think that there was a time that I almost loved you
You showed your ass and, baby, yes, I saw the real you
Thank God you blew it
I thank God I dodged a bullet
I'm so over you
Baby, good lookin' out
I wanted you bad
I'm so through with that
'Cause honestly, you turned out to be the
Best thing I never had
I said, you turned out to be the
Best thing I never had
Hmm, and I'll never be the best thing you never had
Oh baby, I bet it sucks to be you right now
I know you want me back
It's time to face the facts
That I'm the one that's got away
Lord knows that it would take another place
Another time, another world, another life
Thank God I found the good in goodbye
I used to want you so bad
I'm so through with that
'Cause honestly, you turned out to be the
Best thing I never had
Oh, you turned out to be the
Best thing I never had
And I will always be the best thing you never had
Ooh, best thing you never had
I used to want you so bad
I'm so through with that
'Cause honestly, you turned out to be the
Best thing I never had
Oh, you turned out to be the
Best thing I never had
Whoa, I'll never be the best thing you never had
Oh baby, I bet it sucks to be you right now
(What goes around comes back around)
(What goes around comes back around)
Bet it sucks to be you right now
(What goes around comes back around)
I bet it sucks to be you right now
(What goes around comes back around)
I bet it sucks to be you right now
(Hey, my baby)
What goes around comes back around
(Hey, my baby)
I say, what goes around comes back around
(Hey, my baby)
What goes around comes back around
There was a time
I thought that you did everything right
No lies, no wrong
Boy, I must've been out of my mind
So when I think of the time that I almost loved you
You showed your ass and I, I saw the real you
Thank God you blew it
I thank God I dodged a bullet
I'm so over you
So, baby, good lookin' out
I wanted you bad
I'm so through with that
'Cause honestly, you turned out to be the
Best thing I never had
You turned out to be the
Best thing I never had
And I'm gon' always be the best thing you never had
Oh yeah, I bet it sucks to be you right now
So sad, you're hurt
Boo hoo, oh, did you expect me to care?
You don't deserve my tears
I guess that's why they ain't there
When I think that there was a time that I almost loved you
You showed your ass and, baby, yes, I saw the real you
Thank God you blew it
I thank God I dodged a bullet
I'm so over you
Baby, good lookin' out
I wanted you bad
I'm so through with that
'Cause honestly, you turned out to be the
Best thing I never had
I said, you turned out to be the
Best thing I never had
Hmm, and I'll never be the best thing you never had
Oh baby, I bet it sucks to be you right now
I know you want me back
It's time to face the facts
That I'm the one that's got away
Lord knows that it would take another place
Another time, another world, another life
Thank God I found the good in goodbye
I used to want you so bad
I'm so through with that
'Cause honestly, you turned out to be the
Best thing I never had
Oh, you turned out to be the
Best thing I never had
And I will always be the best thing you never had
Ooh, best thing you never had
I used to want you so bad
I'm so through with that
'Cause honestly, you turned out to be the
Best thing I never had
Oh, you turned out to be the
Best thing I never had
Whoa, I'll never be the best thing you never had
Oh baby, I bet it sucks to be you right now
(What goes around comes back around)
(What goes around comes back around)
Bet it sucks to be you right now
(What goes around comes back around)
I bet it sucks to be you right now
(What goes around comes back around)
I bet it sucks to be you right now
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Best Thing I Never Had Lyrics as written by Antonio Dixon Shea Taylor
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