[Verse 1]
I tried to learn your face
Like it was somebody new
Tried to call you cruel
Tried to make it true
Your name in my mouth
Still tastes like rain
I say, “good riddance”
But it sounds like your name
[Pre-Chorus]
I keep reaching for the hate
It slips right through my hands
I keep building up the fire
But it never stays where it lands
[Chorus]
I wanted to hate you
I wanted it bad
I wanted one clean reason
To stop looking back
I wanted to hate you
But I still feel the crack
If six months was nothing
Why does it still hurt like that?
[Verse 2]
You left me in a room
That I still call ours
Now somebody else
Gets the shine, gets the hours
I see your laugh online
See you dressed in their skin
And I tell myself, “forget it”
Then I fold right back in
[Pre-Chorus]
I keep reaching for the hate
It slips right through my hands
I keep saying you were nothing
But I don’t believe that
[Chorus]
I wanted to hate you
I wanted it bad
I wanted one clean reason
To stop looking back
I wanted to hate you
But I still feel the crack
If six months was nothing
Why does it still hurt like that?
[Bridge]
Tell me what do I call this
If not love with a bruise?
Tell me how you disappear
When my heart still chooses you
I rehearsed the goodbye
Like a line I’d survive
But every time I say your name
It cuts me back alive
[Chorus]
I wanted to hate you
I wanted it bad
I wanted one clean reason
To stop looking back
I wanted to hate you
But I still feel the crack
If six months was nothing
Why does it still hurt like that?
[Outro]
I tried
I really tried
But I can’t
I can’t un-love what I had