It's finally over But I can't even cry So, don't you give me no sweet talk You done told your last lie I was your puppet Just a dancin', dancin' on a string But when the sun went down last night, Lord, it changed everything Today I feel different 'Cause now I can see That you care more 'bout yourself Than mistreatin' me It took me a long time To figure you out But misery and pain Ain't what loves all about (Chorus) I was your woman But ya threw it away I used to be your very own Custom made, love slave, do anything for you, little fool But that was yesterday That was yesterday And so it goes Another lesson gets learned And in the big book of experience Another page gets turned Now you say you need me Well, honey, you got some nerve I hope some sweet tomorrow We'll get what we deserve (Repeat Chorus) I'm packing up and movin' on Your real good thing is good and gone

It seems the love I've known has always been The most destructive kind I guess that's why now I feel so old Before my time Yesterday when I was young The taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue I teased at life as if it were a foolish game The way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned I always built to last on weak and shifting sand I lived by night and shunned the naked light of the day And only now I see how the years ran away Yesterday when I was young So many happy songs were waiting to be sung So many wild pleasures lay in store for me And so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to see I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out I never stopped to think what life was all about And every conversation I can now recall Concerned itself with me and nothing else at all Yesterday the moon was blue And every crazy day brought something new to do I used my magic age as if it were a wand And never saw the waste and the emptiness beyond The game of love I played with arrogance and pride And every flame I lit too quickly, quickly died The friends I made all seemed somehow to drift away And only I am left on stage to end the play There are so many songs in me that won't be sung I feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongue The time has come for me to pay For yesterday when I was young

I waved the white flag I gave all I had I'd even given up on love itself, hmm, hmm Soaked by my tears I was choked by my fears Just a stubborn man too proud to ask for help You don't know those words you said Were the ones that pulled me from the edge Oh, I used to walk on bridges with one thing on my mind Do I wanna live or do I wanna die? Staring at the waters while trying to decide Between the pain that I've been living with or the pain I'd leave behind Or the demons I've been fighting on, the angels by my side Oh-hey, hey-hey, hey-hey The scars on my skin, they don't even begin To show the darkest places that I've been, nah, oh The water is rising behind my eyes And only you can see the thoughts I'm drowning in I wanna thank you for those words you said 'Cause they pulled me right back from the edge Oh, I used to walk on bridges with one thing on my mind Do I wanna live or do I wanna die? Staring at the waters while trying to decide Between the pain that I've been living with or the pain I'd leave behind Or the demons I've been fighting on, the angels by my side Hey-hey, hey-hey, hey-hey Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh Oh, I used to walk on bridges with one thing on my mind But now I walk on bridges to reach the other side

They don't need ya, need ya like I do They don't see the details of you Who gon' please you, please you like I do? And love every detail, detail of you How you look in the car when I'm driving a little fast How you pause when you talk when you tryin' not to laugh It's the littlest things about you that I don't forget, no-no The way that you move, baby, you In all that you do Honey, nah, nah They don't need ya, need ya like I do They don't see the details of you Who gon' please you, please you like I do? And love every detail, detail of you In a flower-printed dress, so hot but you play it cool And pretend not to notice everybody noticin' you And the closer I get there's more that I never knew, no, no Falling for you, ooh Your every expression Paint you with both my eyes closed No one's got my attention, no, no It's all for you Honey, nah, nah They don't need ya, need ya like I do They don't see the details of you Who gon' please you, please you like I do? And love every detail of you