"Want You Back" lyrics

I was treading water till the minute we met
Till you caught a teacher's daughter with a dangerous text
I read it like a bible and I wore it like a bulletproof vest

Found myself a lover that made everything rhyme
Slept under your covers, it made everything right
Yeah, I was the DJ and the darling of your passenger side

So I know that you did bad
But if one more person says it, I might go mad
Yeah, I know it didn't last
And what was cheap to you, to me was all I had

The issue is
I know all of this
And I
I still want you back
I still want you back

Found yourself a lover, I bet she doesn't sing
But, baby, when you touch her, I bet she doesn't flinch
She'll have you every summer when I only had you half of a spring

You left like an assassin, maybe that's for the best
'Cause if you'd told me what would happen, I think I would've begged
So you got to be a coward and I salvaged a little self-respect

Yeah, I know that you did bad
But if one more person says it, I might go mad
Yeah, I know it didn't last
And what was cheap to you, to me was all I had

The issue is
I know all of this
And I
I still want you back

I am not allowed to want you any longer
I must go out with a stranger, I must kiss him to get stronger
So I don't tell a soul, but I'd be yours again tomorrow if you wanted
But you don't wanna

So I know that you did bad
But if one more person says it, I might go mad
It wasn't real
It was for me, but you know that
And I bet you've thrown away our photographs

The issue is
I know all of this
And I
I still want you back
I still want you back
I still want you back