i wish i knew you then,
when i was still young
and a little too ignorant
when i still looked at the world
with rose colored glasses
and i still believed
in happy endings,
happily ever after
i knew no surrender
when giving up was never my option
when i was willing to bleed
for a chance to keep holding on
when every bruise, i treated as badge
when i never kept any grudge
when every word whispered
i took as truth
i was too innocent. . .

i would've gone ahead and loved you then

but i know better now,
i think
i am much wiser now,
i hope
i know when to quit,
when to back down,
when not to believe,
yeah right

then why am i still struggling
to not lose myself in you?