| It was so nice throwing big parties
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| Jump into the pool from the balcony
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| Everyone swimming in a champagne sea
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| And there are no rules when you show up here
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| Bass beat rattling the chandelier
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| Feeling so Gatsby for that whole year
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| So why’d you have to rain on my parade?
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| I’m shaking my head
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| I’m locking the gates
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| This is why we can’t have nice things, darling
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| Because you break them
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| I had to take them away
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| This is why we can’t have nice things, honey
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| Did you think I wouldn’t hear all the things you said about me?
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| This is why we can’t have nice things
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| It was so nice being friends again
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| There I was giving you a second chance
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| But you stabbed me in the back while shaking my hand
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| And therein lies the issue
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| Friends don’t try to trick you
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| Get you on the phone and mind-twist you
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| And so I took an axe to a mended fence
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| But I’m not the only friend you’ve lost lately
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| If only you weren’t
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| So shady
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| This is why we can’t have nice things, darling
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| Because you break them
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| I had to take them away
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| This is why we can’t have nice things, honey
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| Did you think I wouldn’t hear all the things you said about me?
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| This is why we can’t have
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| Here’s a toast to my real friends
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| They don’t care about that he said, she said
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| And here’s to my baby
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| He ain’t reading what they call me lately
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| And here’s to my momma
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| Had to listen to all this drama
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| And here’s to you
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| 'Cause forgiveness is a nice thing to do
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| Haha, I can’t even say it with a straight face
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| This is why we can’t have nice things, darling (darling)
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| Because you break them
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| I had to take them away
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| This is why we can’t have nice things, honey
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| Did you think I wouldn’t hear all the things you said about me?
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| This is why we can’t have nice things, darling
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| (And here’s to my real friends)
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| Because you break them
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| I had to take them away
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| (And here’s to my baby)
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| Nice things, honey
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| (He didn’t care about that he said, she said)
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| Did you think I wouldn’t hear all the things you said about me?
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| This is why we can’t have nice things |