You reached out   You got burned   Made tough by the lessons you learned   You never thought they could be so mean   Be so hard and cause you so much pain   Like a fool   You tired again   You really wanted to be their friend   But looking back you see they just wasted your time   Self loathing   The anger inside   You covered it up with pride   You always found a way to blame it on yourself      So mad   So mean   The pain remained unseen   All that time spent up wanting to explode   What they did   The things they said   You wished that you were dead   Anything not to deal with them   They made you hate   You couldn't wait   To go out and do something great   Turn around and throw it right back in their face      Looking back you get yourself together   Looking back you see the hatred inside   Now you see that you get to change your mind about yourself   And get to move on   Looking back you see you just wasted your time   Looking back you can see all you've got is yourself   You can tell by the look in their eyes      Now you see   How you are   The wisdom mixed in with all the scars   Watching all the fools   They never knew   They never do   It was always up to you   You gotta get it for yourself   You never were   One of them   They could have never been our friends   The best revenge is to always survive yourself