[Intro: Posh]
Spice Girls, Darkchild
Let's dance
Ooh-ooh
We could have had it all
But you turned your back

[Verse 1: Posh]
It started with dreams
It started a team
But you weren't as true as you always seemed
You promised to love no matter what
Yet you turned your back and walked out on me

[Pre-Chorus: Baby, Posh, Baby & Posh]
What made you think that without me
Your life would be so much better? (Oh)
But now you see (But now you see)
That without me
Your hopes and dreams (And your dreams)
Will never be as good as what you had with me

[Chorus: All & Baby]
(So tell me why)
Tell me why, oh, why
Did we end up this way?
When we tried (We tried)
To make everything okay (Oh)
Tell me why, oh, why
Did you feel you couldn't stay?
When we could have stayed together
But you wanted it this way
[Verse 2: Scary]
You never thought that I would find out
All of the things you said about us
When you're the one who decided to
Erase all our plans and say you are through

[Pre-Chorus: Baby, Scary, Baby & Scary]
What made you think that without me
Your life would be so much better? (So much better)
But now you see (But now you see)
That without me
Your hopes and dreams (They will never)
Will never be as good as what you had with me (Had with me)

[Chorus: All, Sporty & Scary]
Tell me why, oh, why (Tell me why)
Did we end up this way?
(Did we end up this way?)
When we tried (We tried, when we tried)
To make everything okay (Yes, we did)
Tell me why, oh, why
Did you feel you couldn't stay?
When we could have stayed together (We could have)
But you wanted it this way (Oh, woah-woah)
Tell me why, oh, why
Did we end up this way? (Did we end up this way)
(I thought it was okay)
When we tried (We tried)
To make everything okay (We tried and tried, tried so hard)
Tell me why, oh, why
Did you feel you couldn't stay? (It was you who wanted to leave)
When we could have stayed together
But you wanted it this way (But you wanted it this way)
[Bridge: Sporty]
Now tell me, was it your plan all along
To try and use me and then let go?
Now where is the trust we had between us?
I guess that you never played by the rules

[Interlude: Baby & Rodney Jerkins]
(Come on, yeah)
(Let's dance, come on, uh, uh)
(Come on, come on, whoo)
(Like that, like that, uh, uh)
(Spice Girls, uh, uh)
(Darkchild, uh, uh)
(2000, uh, uh)
Can you tell me?

[Chorus: All, Baby & Sporty]
Tell me why, oh, why
Did we end up this way?
When we tried (We tried)
To make everything okay (We tried and tried again)
Tell me why (Yes, we did), oh, why
Did you feel you couldn't stay?
When we could have stayed together (Thought you could've stayed)
But you wanted it this way (Oh, tell me why)
Tell me why, oh, wh
Did we end up this way? (Did we end up this way)
When we tried (We tried, we always tried again)
To make everything okay (We always tried again)
Tell me why, oh, why
Did you feel you couldn't stay? (Somebody tell me why)
When we could have stayed together
But you wanted it this way (You wanted it this way)
Tell me why, oh, why
Did we end up this way? (Oh, tell me why)
When we tried (We tried, yeah, yeah, yeah)
To make everything okay
Tell me why, oh, why
Did you feel you couldn't stay?
When we could have stayed together
But you wanted it this way