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.