why s it gotta be so hard why s it gotta be this way it s like i m being torn apart all this beautiful pain i know you wanna be with me but you gotta go to him freedom isn t really free you sink before you learn to swim and i shudder in my sleep i can hardly close my eyes then i wake up in a dream free now from a life of compromise well you never lost but you never won cause you never fought and you never moved on you never lost but you never won cause you never fought and you never moved on don t be afraid of looking back no everybody has a past now you got my heart racing in just a few dates and i wanna be patient so this doesn t fade away if you re gonna save a life maybe it should be your own cause baby we don t have much time before we go stumbling home and i know that we just met but what i never understood how can something be that bad when it feels this good and i shudder in my sleep i can hardly close my eyes then i wake up in a dream free now from a life of compromise oh you never lost but you never won cause you never fought and you never moved on you never lost but you never won cause you never fought and you never moved on don t be afraid of looking back no everybody has a past now you got my heart racing in just a few dates and i wanna be patient so this doesn t fade away no so this doesn t fade away no so this doesn t fade away well you never lost but you never won cause you never fought and you never moved on you never lost but you never won cause you never fought and you never moved on you never lost but you never won cause you never fought and you never moved on you never lost but you never won cause you never fought and you never moved on don t be afraid of looking back no everybody has a past now you got my heart racing in just a few dates and i wanna be patient so this doesn t fade you got my heart racing in just a few dates i wanna be patient so this doesn t fade away why s it gotta be so hard why s it gotta be this way it s like i m being torn apart all this beautiful pain