Verse
G#
We were both young when I first saw you
C#
I close my eyes and the flashback starts
Fm C#
I'm standing there on a balcony in summer air
G#
See the lights, see the party, the ball gowns
C#
See you make your way through the crowd
Fm
And say hello
D#
Little did I know
C# D#
That you were Romeo, you were throwing pebbles
Fm G#
And my daddy said, "Stay away from Juliet"
C#
And I was crying on the staircase
D# Fm
Begging you, please, don't go
[Verse 2]
G#
Can't you see that I'm the one who understands you
D# A#m
Been here all along so why can't you see
C#
You belong with me
G#
Standing by and waiting at your back door
D#
All this time
How could you not know
A#m C#
Baby you belong with me
G#
You belong with me
[Verse 3]
G# A#m C# D#
I was walking up the front porch steps after everything that day,
G# A#m C# D#
Had gone all wrong, had been trampled on and lost and thrown away,
G# A#m C# D#
Got to the hallway well on my way to my lovin' bed,
G# A#m
I almost didn't notice all the roses,
C# D#
And the note that said,
[Verse 4]
A# F Gm D#
Someday I'll be living in a big ol' city
A# F D#
And all you're ever going to be is mean
A# F Gm D#
Someday I'll be big enough so you can't hit me
A# F D#
And all you're ever going to be is mean
A#
Why you gotta be so mean?
[Verse 5]
Cadd9 C# G# A#m7
Oh we called it off again last night
Cadd9 C# G# A#m7
But oh, this time I'm telling you, I'm telling you
Cadd9 C# G# A#m7 G#/C
We are never ever, ever getting back together
Cadd9 C# G# A#m7 G#/C
We are never ever, ever getting back together
Cadd9 C# G# A#m7 G#/C
You go talk to your friends, talk to my friends, talk to me
Cadd9 C# G#
But we are never ever, ever, ever getting back together
[Verse 6]
Fm C# D#
I knew you were trouble when you walked in
G# D# Fm
So shame on me now
C# D#
Flew me to places I'd never been
G# D#
Till you put me down oh
Fm C# D#
I knew you were trouble when you walked in
G# D# Fm
So shame on me now
C# D#
Flew me to places I'd never been
G# Fm
Now I'm lying on the cold hard ground
Fm C# D# G# D# Fm
Oh, oh, trouble, trouble, trouble
Fm C# D# G# D#
Oh, oh, trouble, trouble, trouble
[Verse 7]
C# G#
Losing him was blue like I'd never known
D#
Missing him was dark grey all alone
C# Fm D#
Forgetting him was like trying to know somebody you never met
[Verse 8]
G# D#
Cause here we are again in the middle of the night.
Fm C#
We dance around the kitchen in the refrigerator light
G# D# Fm C#
Down the stairs, you were there, you remember it all too well, yeah.
G# D#
Hey, you call me up again just to break me like a promise.
Fm C#
So casually cruel in the name of being honest
G# D# Fm C#
It was rare,I was there I remember it all to well
[Verse 9]
C# Fm D#
And that's why he's spinning 'round in my head
C#
Comes back to me, burning red
C# Fm D#
Why he's spinning 'round in my head
C#
Comes back to me, burning red