I called you on the phone today
Just to ask you how you were
All I did was speak normally
Somehow I still struck a nerve
I called you on the phone today
Just to ask you how you were
All I did was speak normally
Somehow I still struck a nerve
You got me fucked up in the head, boy
Never doubted myself so much
Like am I pretty? Am I fun, boy?
I hate that I gave you power over that kind of stuff
[Chorus]
Cause it's always one step forward and three steps back
I'm the love of your life until I make you mad
It's always one step forward and three steps back
Do you love me, want me, hate me? Boy, I don't understand
No, I don't understand
[Verse 2]
And maybe in some masochistic way
I kind of find it all exciting
Like which lover will I get today?
Will you walk me to the door or send me home cryin'?
[Chorus]
It's one step forward and three steps back
I'm the love of your life until I make you mad
It's always one step forward and three steps back
Do you love me, want me, hate me? Boy, I don't understand
[Bridge]
No, it's back and forth, did I say somethin' wrong?
It's back and forth, goin' over everything I said
It's back and forth, did I do somethin' wrong?
It's back and forth, maybe, this is all your fault
[Chorus]
Instead it's one step forward and three steps back
And I'd leave you, but the roller coaster's all I've ever had
Yeah, it's one step forward and three steps back
Do you love me, want me, hate me? Boy, I don't understand
No, I don't understand
Ek roep jou op die telefoon vandag
Net om jou te vra hoe jy was
Al wat ek gedoen het, was praat normaalweg
Een of ander manier het ek getref nog 'n senuwee
Jy het my opgefok in die kop, seun
getwyfel myself nooit soveel
Soos ek mooi? Am Ek pret, seun?
Ek haat dat ek vir jou gegee het mag oor daardie soort van dinge
[Koor]
Want dit is altyd 'n stap vorentoe en drie treë terug
Ek is die liefde van jou lewe totdat Ek u 'n besetene
Dit is altyd 'n stap vorentoe en drie treë terug
Het jy my lief, wil my haat my? Boy, ek verstaan nie
Nee, ek verstaan nie
[Vers 2]
En miskien in sommige masochistiese wyse
Ek hou nogal van vind dit al opwindend
Soos wat minnaar sal ek vandag kry?
Sal jy my aangesig wandel tot by die deur of stuur vir my huis Cryin '?
[Koor]
Dit is 'n stap vorentoe en drie treë terug
Ek is die liefde van jou lewe totdat Ek u 'n besetene
Dit is altyd 'n stap vorentoe en drie treë terug
Het jy my lief, wil my haat my? Boy, ek verstaan nie
[Bridge]
Nee, dis heen en weer, het ek sê Somethin 'verkeerd?
Dit is heen en weer, goin 'oor alles wat ek sê
Dit is heen en weer, het ek gedoen Somethin 'verkeerd?
Dit is heen en weer, miskien, dit is alles jou skuld
[Koor]
In plaas daarvan is dit 'n stap vorentoe en drie treë terug
En Ek sal jou laat, maar die rollercoaster is al wat ek ooit gehad het
Ja, dit is 'n stap vorentoe en drie treë terug
Het jy my lief, wil my haat my? Boy, ek verstaan nie
Nee, ek verstaan nie