I Don't Need You Anymore

You really thought I'd stay
After knowing everything?
No
You don't get me twice

I used to make excuses
Every time your story changed
I'd defend you to my friends
While you made me look insane
You wanted all my loyalty
With nothing in return
I gave you every honest part
You never tried to earn

I know exactly what I was to you
Something waiting when you wanted more
But I've finally learned the difference
Between being loved
And being kept around

I don't need you anymore
I'm not one of your whores
I'm not another girl you call
When somebody shuts their door
Go explain yourself to someone
Who still believes what you say
I loved you once, I hate that truth
But I'm walking out today
You don't own the woman
Who kept coming back before
You had me
You lost me
I don't need you anymore

Not anymore
You did this
Remember that

Don't need
Anymore
Don't need
Anymore

You knew which words would hurt me
Then pretended you forgot
You'd pull me close when losing me
And disappear when I was caught
You called it love whenever
I was halfway out your life
Funny how you wanted forever
Only when I said goodbye

And part of me still loves you
That's the part that makes me mad
Because loving you doesn't change
What loving you became

I don't need you anymore
I'm not one of your whores
I'm not another girl you call
When somebody shuts their door
Go explain yourself to someone
Who still believes what you say
I loved you once, I hate that truth
But I'm walking out today
You don't own the woman
Who kept coming back before
You had me
You lost me
I don't need you anymore

I said I'm done
For real this time
You lost the right to ask me why

Don't need
Anymore
Don't need
Anymore

Here's the part you'll never understand
I didn't leave because I stopped loving you
I left because I finally understood
Loving you was making me hate myself

And I refuse
To become somebody I don't respect
Just to keep somebody
Who never respected me

So keep the numbers
Keep the excuses
Keep those late-night apologies
You only mean until morning

I don't want revenge
I want distance

There's a difference

I don't need you anymore
I'm not one of your whores
I won't stand in some dawn line
Waiting for that should be mine
You can tell them I was difficult
Tell them anything you choose
Just don't leave out the part
Where I gave everything to you

I loved you harder
Than you ever deserved
I stayed much longer
Than you ever earned
And maybe somewhere inside me
I'll always miss who I thought you were

But I don't miss this
I don't want this
And I won't beg anymore

You had me
All of me
Now you don't

I don't need you anymore

Don't need
Anymore
Don't need
Anymore

Don't need you
Don't need
Anymore