I Should've Written You a Love Song

I should've written you a love song

But instead I wrote a song about how I was moving on

And I wrote some lines and some rhymes that

I kind of regret

I should've written you a love song

But instead I wrote a song about how you were just a phase

And how you had a pretty face but

I just wanted you to change

Oh, I wrote these songs

About how we could never work

And then turned around

And gave my best rhymes to the wrong guys

Oh, I wrote them poems and melodies

I let them live in harmonies

But out of all of them

Now I'm thinking

I should've written you a love song

But instead I wrote a song about how you were in my way

And I wrote some mean things

And all these refrains echoed in my brain

I couldn't get them out of my head

I would hear them when I saw you

And believe in what they said

And they were a constant reminder

I had these catchy tunes

Telling me I didn't want you

Oh, I wrote these songs

About how we could never work

And then turned around

And gave my best rhymes to the wrong guys

Oh, I wrote them poems and melodies

I let them live in harmonies

But out of all of them

Now I'm thinking

I should've written you a love song

And I know that it's a little late

And we have all moved on

But I wanted you to know

Here's the song I should've written

Five years ago