I wasn’t perfect. Wasn’t perfect, no-oh!
I wasn’t perfect. Wasn’t perfect, no-oh-oh-oh!
Hey, I''m sorry for the way that I was back then!
If I had it to do over, wouldn''t do it again.
I’ve lost count of the amount of hours I spent wishin’
I could go back just a little, make a few better decisions.
Sure, I made a few mistakes - okay, more than a few -
but there''s nothing I regret more than the way I treated you.
Looking back on how it happened, I don''t know what''s more surprising:
that you ever took me back, or that I stopped apologizing.
Back then, I really hurt you.
Back then, I couldn''t see
just how little I deserved you being close to me.
Back then, I wasn''t perfect.
Back then, I wasn''t smart.
It seems like all I ever did was go and break your heart.
Hey, I’m sorry for the things that I said back then!
Could have been a better lover and a better friend.
Should have figured out way earlier that what was missing
was that I couldn’t ever shut up long enough to listen.
I said lots of stupid stuff I really didn’t mean.
Wish I knew what I know now back when I was sixteen.
Looking back, I really hate the way that I ignored you
all those times you really needed me to be there for you.
I wasn’t perfect. Wasn’t perfect, no-oh!
I wasn’t perfect, baby, wasn’t perfect, no-oh-oh-oh whoa!
Back then, I really hurt you.
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Back then, I couldn''t see
just how little I deserved you being close to me.
Back then, I wasn''t perfect.
Back then, I wasn''t smart.
It seems like all I ever did was go and break your heart.
Hey, I’m sorry for the feelings I hid back then.
I was way more cold and callous than I should have been.
All that time, I knew I loved you but I let you doubt it
and denied it when you asked until we fought about it.
When they caught me making eyes, I said it wasn’t true;
there was no way I could be falling for someone like you.
Looking back, I wish I’d told the truth of how I felt.
Wonder how it would have changed the hands that we were dealt.
Back then, I really hurt you.
Back then, I couldn''t see
just how little I deserved you being close to me.
Back then, I wasn''t perfect.
Back then, I wasn''t smart.
It seems like all I ever did was go and break your heart.
Hey, I’m sorry for the way I made you feel back then.
I’ve been treating you like crap since, gods, I don’t know when.
Every time that you got close to me, I got unnerved,
pushed you away from me with insults you did not deserve.
I was trying to deny the way I felt for you.
Thought maybe I could love you less somehow if you did, too.
Looking back, I don’t know how we ever found romance
when I never found a way to give you half a chance.
I wasn’t perfect. Wasn’t perfect, no-oh!
I wasn’t perfect, baby, wasn’t perfect, no-oh-oh-oh whoa!
Back then, I really hurt you.
Back then, I couldn''t see
just how little I deserved you being close to me.
Back then, I wasn''t perfect.
Back then, I wasn''t smart.
It seems like all I ever did was go and break your heart.
Gods, I can’t believe how far we’ve come since way back then.
Who’d have guessed I’d ever wind up more than your girlfriend?
Who’d have ever thought we had a chance to last this long?
That you ever would forgive me for all I did wrong?
Every day I wake up next to you, I need a minute
to believe it’s not a dream that the bed has you in it.
Looking back, sometimes the hardest thing is that I know,
If I wasn’t cruel, we could have done this years ago.
Back then, I was bad for you.
Back then, I was flat wrong.
The worst part is, I think I probably knew it all along.
Back then, I wasn’t perfect.
Back then, I made mistakes.
I swear, I’ll make it up to you, don’t care how long it takes.