ÊMIA - ​i liked you better when you were seventeen

{Verse 1}
Maybe it's the way that the hair on your face hadn't grown in yet
When you still had the face of a child who would mean every word he said
And you loved me like you did because you never loved before
Now I know you're out there looking, yeah, you're looking for something more

{Chorus 1}
I liked you better
Way before you started changing
Into someone so clever
Shaping every word you're saying
You may be older and richer and taller
But to me that don't mean anything
'Cause I liked you better
I liked you better when you were seventeen

{Verse 2}
Before you had a car to escape, used to walk with me for miles
And never even cared where we'd go just as long as we stayed a while
And the promises you made were ones you still thought you'd keep
When we lived a life when there was no other girls like me

{Chorus 2}
I liked you better
Way before you started climbing
To get someplace higher
Now I can see how hard you're trying
To be older and richer and taller
But to me that don't mean anything
'Cause you loved me better
You loved me better when you were seventeen

{Bridge}
I was the first to know how beautiful you were
But I guess you still are
But all of the days I've built my world inside of yours
Have never felt so far

{Verse 3}
Maybe it was me who was caught in the picture of our innocence
When forever was something you could give and I'd expect
I knew what I thought I wanted: nothing more and nothing less
I was only who I was and not who I'd be quite yet

{Outro}
I loved you better
I loved you when we were seventeen