Your smile and laugh
Has never been because of me
Looking back on everything
I don't regret a thing

The endless criticism
Telling me I was a loser
I'd never be a writer
I'd never amount to anything

Every word out of your mouth
Served only to tear me down
Never to build me up
But you still cross my mind

I used to love you
No idea why
You lived in my mind
Repeating those words

Telling me every negative thing
Making me believe you
But now I can see the truth
You never were good for me

Yet I can't hate you
I don't have it in me
I can't even dislike you
That not how I am

Why couldn't I say it
Move on from this
Say I'm done with it all
Every word and thought

You don't cross my mind
Unless I'm already down
Then you only whisper unsweet somethings
In every dark corner of my mind

Yet I can't bring myself to hate you
But I do forgive you
Every word and missed chance
Because I'm better off without you.