Maroon 5
"Payphone" Lyrics

I'm at a payphone trying to call home
I'm currently at a payphone, desperately trying to reach out to someone who feels like home

All of my change I spent on you
I've exhausted all my resources and given everything I have to make things work with you

Where have the times gone, baby it's all wrong
I can't help but look back on our past and realize that everything feels off and not right

Where are the plans we made for two
I feel like our dreams and future that we planned together have vanished into thin air

Yeah, I, I know it's hard to remember
I understand that it's difficult to recall the good memories we had together

The people we used to be
Who we were in the past seems so far away from who we are now

It's even harder to picture
It's almost impossible to imagine a future with you now

That you're not here next to me
I can't cope with the fact that you're not by my side anymore

You say it's too late to make it
You're telling me that there's no hope left for us to fix things

But is it too late to try
I still want to put in effort to make things work, despite your doubts

And in our time that you wasted
You've spent so much of our time together without any real intention to make things better

All of our bridges burned down
We've burned all the bridges between us due to the constant fighting and disagreements

I've wasted my nights
I've spent countless nights thinking about where things went wrong

You turned out the lights
You abandoned our relationship, leaving me in the dark and confused

Now I'm paralyzed
I'm frozen and incapable of moving on from the pain you've caused me

Still stuck in that time
I can't help but feel like I'm still trapped in the past where we were happy and in love

When we called it love
Back when we were together, we considered what we had to be actual love

But even the sun sets in paradise
Everything, even the good things, must come to an end eventually

If Happy Ever Afters did exist
If the kind of fairy tale happy endings people talk about were real,

I would still be holding you like this
I would still be holding onto you and our relationship tightly

All those fairy tales are full of shit
The idea of true love being perfect and flawless is a complete lie

One more fucking love song, I'll be sick
If I hear one more sappy love song, I'll lose it

Oh, you turned your back on tomorrow
You've given up on the future we could have had together

'Cause you forgot yesterday
You've let go of the good memories we had together in the past

I gave you my love to borrow
I gave you my heart to take care of and cherish while we were together

But you just gave it away
You treated my love carelessly and didn't value it the way you should have

You can't expect me to be fine
You shouldn't expect me to just be okay and move on that easily from our breakup

I don't expect you to care
I understand that you probably don't care about me anymore

I know I've said it before
I've already told you multiple times how hurt I am by everything that's happened

But all of our bridges burned down
We've destroyed every last bridge connecting us and our relationship together

Man, fuck that shit
I've had enough of this pain and despair

I'll be out spending all this money
I'll distract myself by spending tons of money on things to make myself feel better

While you're sitting round wondering
You'll be left alone and wondering what could have been

Why it wasn't you who came up from nothing
You'll regret not putting in enough effort to save our relationship when you had the chance

Made it from the bottom
I worked hard to get where I am now, despite starting from the bottom

Now when you see me I'm stunting
Whenever you see me now, I'm successfully showing off and flaunting my accomplishments

And all of my cars start with a push of a button
I've come so far now that even all of my cars start with a simple push of a button

Telling me the chances I blew up
You'll try to remind me of opportunities I missed out on or messed up in the past

Or whatever you call it
Or whatever negative thing you want to say about me or our past relationship

Switch the number to my phone
I've changed my phone number so that you can't contact me anymore

So you never could call it
So you don't have any way of reaching out to me and causing me more pain

Don't need my name on my show
I don't even need to have my name involved in what I do now to be successful

You can tell it I'm ballin'
You can see for yourself that I'm doing amazing now without you holding me back