Called you on the phone today

Just to ask you how you are

All I did was speak normallySomehow, 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 give you power over that kind of stuff

′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

And maybe, in some masochistic way

I kinda find it all excitin′

Like, which lover will I get today?

Will you walk me to the door or send me home crying?

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

No, it's back and forth, did I say something wrong?

It′s back and forth, going over everything I said

It's back and forth, did I do something wrong?

It's back and forth, maybe this is all your fault 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