1 Step Forward, 3 Steps Back

Album: Sour (2021)
Charted: 19
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  • Called you on the phone today
    Just to ask you how you were
    All I did was speak normally
    Somehow I still struck a nerve

    You got me fucked up in the head, boy
    Never doubted myself so much
    Like, am I pretty? Am I fun, boy?
    I hate that I give you power over that kind of stuff

    'Cause it's always one step forward and three steps back
    I'm the love of your life until I make you mad
    It's always one step forward and three steps back
    Do you love me, want me, hate me? Boy, I don't understand
    No, I don't understand

    And maybe in some masochistic way
    I kinda find it all exciting
    Like, which lover will I get today?
    Will you walk me to the door or send me home cryin'?

    It's one step forward and three steps back
    I'm the love of your life until I make you mad
    It's always one step forward and three steps back
    Do you love me, want me, hate me? Boy, I don't understand

    No, it's back and forth, did I say something wrong?
    It's back and forth, goin' over everything I said
    It's back and forth, did I do something wrong?
    It's back and forth, maybe this is all your fault

    Instead it's one step forward and three steps back
    And I'd leave you, but the roller coaster is all I've ever had
    Yeah, it's one step forward and three steps back
    Do you love me, want me, hate me? Boy
    I don't understand
    No, I don't understand Writer/s: Jack Antonoff, Olivia Rodrigo, Taylor Swift
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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