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Best Thing I Never Had Lyrics

What goes around comes back around (hey my baby)
What goes around comes back around (hey my baby)
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 outta my mind
So when I think of the time that I almost loved you
You showed your ass and I saw the real you

Thank God you blew it
Thank God I dodged the bullet
I'm so over you
So baby good lookin' out

[Chorus]
I wanted you bad
I'm so through with that
Cuz 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
I bet it sucks to be you right now

It's 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
Thank God I dodged the bullet
I'm so over you
Baby good lookin' out


[Chorus]
I wanted you bad
I'm so through with that
Cuz 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
And I'll never be the best thing you never had
Oh baby I bet 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

[Chorus]
I used to want you so bad
I'm so through with that
Cuz 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 will always be the, best thing you never had.
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
Oh I will 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
Bet it sucks to be you right now
What goes around, comes back around
Bet it sucks to be you right now
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Cover art for Best Thing I Never Had lyrics by Beyoncé

I just heard this song recently and I love it. It's so simple but so true. To me, it's about that guy that you thought you were in love with but through his actions you knew you could never love someone with his character. You were really upset at first and you wanted him to prove to be the guy you thought you were falling in love with but he never does. You then meet another guy who is so amazing and shows you what it is to really love someone. He just makes you smile and you can't stop. You realize that if the first guy had never messed up you would probably still be with him and would have missed out. In that sense you got lucky because "you dodged the bullet". You are actually glad that the original guy turned out the way he did. You were a beautiful and wonderful girl that would have done anything for him but he never got all of you because he messed up pretty big over and over "you turned out to be the best thing I never had. And I will always be the best thing you never had." He will always have to live with the fact that he lost you and in that essence it " bet it sucks to be you right now."

I agree with your interpretation but with the roles reverse. my ex broke up with me via text and i was depressed. Just listened to this on spotify made me realize that there is some better girl out there for me and my ex missed out something awesome. Got to believe that there is someone at there for me.

Cover art for Best Thing I Never Had lyrics by Beyoncé

My life's theme song.

Cover art for Best Thing I Never Had lyrics by Beyoncé

I agree musicconnoisseur. Isn't it funny how blind we are when we feel we are in love with someone. But for those of us who are lucky, we wake up, the rosy colored glasses come off, and we dodge a bullet. Then someone comes along who makes the other look like the complete douche he is. Bravo Beyonce!

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I can\'t believe she really says "you showed your ass"... I thought Beyonce was supposed to be dignified...

Cover art for Best Thing I Never Had lyrics by Beyoncé

Does this song sound musically like "I want it that way" by the Backstreet Boys to anyone else? or is it just me

umm i dont really think so "i want it that way" is more like expressing wistfully how he wants the girl back,with whom things might have gone wrong but "best i never had" is a woman telling her ex she s happy with her life now and thank her ex who didnt treat her right . she had loved him once but the man was a jerk,kinda like stringing her along for sometime and then broke up.now the woman has found her real love who is the right one for her and deserves her,who is a wonderful woman...

Cover art for Best Thing I Never Had lyrics by Beyoncé

What goes around,comes back around...sooner or later :)

Cover art for Best Thing I Never Had lyrics by Beyoncé

This song is about the nature of love. "what goes around comes back around" - it means that if you give love, doesn't matter how someone is responding to it, you will always get it back in some way, because this is the nature of love. In opposite, if someone has an other aim in the relationship, if the person is not there for experiencing love, than he/she will got back something else, but love is the best thing to experience. Not to have but to experience????

Cover art for Best Thing I Never Had lyrics by Beyoncé

It's an OK song. Her best by far is Ave Maria, although most people (I believe) have never heard Beyonce's version. This song is funny. There's too much protesting. If she really didn't care, she'd be apathetic, not wasting so much time stating that he's the best thing she never had. Poor girl, she's smitten and just won't admit it :D

All those boogers have is physical beauty. That's it. Settle. Settle. Settle. Tisk. Tisk. Tisk.

I feel like rather than being smitten and not admitting it, she's trying to force herself to believe that she doesn't care so that she can move on easier.