[Verse 1]
It's been a few years since I loved you, a few years since I could
Since the pain of unrequited lust felt dizzyingly good
A few years since I thought about
The time I thought about you night and day
You were the sunrise in my mornings, the starlight in my night
All the words in songs I wrote you, I could never get it right
But since I got your friend request
I just can't look at you the same way

[Pre-Chorus]
You were the one that got away
And now you're just the one I've got on Facebook
And though it breaks my teenage heart to say
That every song I wrote was wrong

[Chorus]
'Cause you were never as pretty as my mind's photograph
And you were never that funny, I just wanted to laugh
And all the times that you led me up the garden path to nowhere
Darling, there was nothing there

[Verse 2]
You look so much better, darling, through my rose-tinted glasses
In the memories of you and me in afterschool French classes
When for some reason I started to suspect
That you had hidden depth
Now I've a window to your soul through your daily boring status
About what you had for dinner or the X-Factor latest
Yeah, the inconvenient truth, I must conclude
Is you're kind of a douche
[Pre-Chorus]
You were the one that got away
Now you're just the one I've got on Facebook
And every tortured serenade
I can no longer sing, 'cause here's the thing:

[Chorus]
You were never as pretty as my mind's photograph
And you were never that funny, I just wanted to laugh
And all the times that you led me up the garden path to nowhere
Darling, there was nothing there

[Bridge]
And what a sorry situation
What a waste of good imagination
But I was drunk on my infatuation
Plus, on my brother's stolen lager
This is the last love song I'll sing you
But I would still give anything to
Never have known your weird right-wing views
And what the fuck is Candy Crush Saga anyway

[Verse 3]
When we left school, and we inevitably lost touch
I thought my heart would burst because I missed you so much
I kept mistaking other girls for you in town
And it would make my heart race
And at the time, in my love-lorn hysteria
I thought that obsession must have made me delirious
But now I know it's just that you have a generic face
[Pre-Chorus]
And through the years my heartache lasted
Now my high school bubble's burst
Mark Zuckerburg, you bastard
The pandora's box that you unlocked

[Chorus]
'Cause she was never as pretty as my mind's photograph
And she was never even funny, I was determined to laugh
And all the times that she led me up the garden path to nowhere
I wish I'd known I didn't need to care
'Cause, darling, there was nothing there