INTRO:

Ooh, ooh, ooh, 

(You know-)

Woah, uhuh uhuh uhuh uhuhuh

Mm, mm, hm

VERSE 1:

I’m tryin’ to be okay without’ch’a

But it’s like you stole half of my heart

Puttin’ a mask over my reflection, uhuh

Just to stay together never fall apart 

Ooh, ooh, ooh

Mhmhmm-hmm

Mm, mm, mhm

BRIDGE (rap):

Uhuh, uhuh, no,

I can’t, cause-

Just- hidin’ behind

My own shallow lies

Wipin’ tears from my eyes  

Tell you I’m just fine

But I’m-

Dyin’ inside

Inwardly lyin’

I can’t be confidin’

In you

It’s true

Put on my mask 

And whenever you ask

I’ll tell you I’m fine

Though I can’t deny

Ev’ry sign 

Ev’ry time  

When your face 

Locks in place

Takes it’s time

Burns an image in my mind 

Uh-, uh,

yeah,

Uhuh uhuh

Yeah 

Uhuh uhuh uhuh

CHORUS:

But inwardly I miss you

Inwardly I hate to 

Admit that I still want you here

Wish I could dismiss it

No longer reminisce it

Say I’d never want’chu back in my life

But It’d be a lie, 

Cause deep-deep-deep-deep-deep-deep buried down 

I hate to confess 

It was all just a mess

But I still loved when you were around

Mm, mm, mhm

Uh-uh, uhuh

Mm, mm, mhm

Oh,

VERSE 2:

Waiting for things to go back to normal

Can’t the old normal come back through?

A friendship changed now back again

Can’t the once before still be our true?

BRIDGE (rap): 

Once-once,-once-once again 

Gone both ways now back again

No time to fiddle 

We’re caught in the middle 

No longer a here or a there 

Rather a caught in midair 

In the weird 

As I feared 

It would be 

Eventually

Ay-ay-ay,-ay-ay-ay-ay

You want a better time to say-

What? 

Nevermind

Words don’t align 

No explanation 

No hesitation 

No compensation 

No agreed combination 

Confirmation

Conversation 

Two sided? 

I wish 

Hello?

Goodbye

Say what? 

Nevermind

Okay 

We say

Wish it wasn’t so uncomfortable

Wish I’d known we weren’t affordable

I mean-

I guess I had known

How it would all go

Before we ever parted

Before it ever started 

Like a broken record on replay 

It’s all happened before I say 

All just a rep-rep-re-rep,-replay

Take everything that we were

And restore what once was 

Or just don’t sweat it

Forget it

Don’t live to regret it

Just don’t let it 

Let your heart shed it 

So as not to weigh on you 

Just put it behind us 

Nevermore bind us 

Set me free 

From who we used to be 

Uh- uh- uh- uhuh

Yeah

Uh- uh- uh- uhuh 

Ay, 

TRANSITION: 

I know,

You know, 

We know,

Uh-

I know you know, -uhuh 

Woah,

CHORUS:

Oh, inwardly I miss you

Inwardly I hate to 

Admit that I still want you here

Wish that I could dismiss 

Just be done with all of it

Say I’d never want’chu

Back in my life

But It’d be a lie, 

Cause deep-deep-deep-deep-deep-deep-deep buried down, 

I hate to confess 

It was all just a mess

But I still loved when you were around

BRIDGE (rap):

Even though 

We both know 

How it’s not the same 

Under a new name 

Wish we could go back 

Rewind several tracks 

But we can’t 

So in my stance 

Even though I hate it 

Even though I hate to say it

Don’t want to confess 

Don’t want to address 

But if I’m honest with you

To the brutal truth 

I gotta say 

Through the pain 

Though I hate to think about it

Though I’d rather live without it

I’m forced to admit 

That truly I loved it 

And the feeling that had always abound 

Every time that you were around

Uh-uhuh

TRANSITION: 

Oh- woah,

Oh- woah,

Oh- woah!

CHORUS:

Inwardly I miss you

Inwardly I hate to 

Admit that I still want you here

Wish that I could dismiss 

Just be done with all of it

Say I’d never want’chu

Back in my life

But It’d be a lie, 

Cause deep-deep-deep-deep-deep-deep-deep buried down, 

I hate to confess, 

Though it all was a mess,

That I still loved it when you were around

Oh-

Even though sometimes I wish we’d never even met

I must confess 

Amidst the test 

Even with regret 

Though I hate to admit

I did love, when you were around