This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

It was so nice throwing big parties
Jumping to the pool from the balcony
Everyone swimming in a champagne sea
And there are no rules
When you show up here
Bass beat rattling the chandelier
Feeling so Gatsby for that whole year

So why’d you have to rain on my parade?
I’m shaking my head
And locking the gates

This is why we can’t have nice things
Darling
Because you break them
I had to take them away
This is why we can’t have nice things
Honey
Did you think I wouldn’t hear
All the things you said about me?
This is why we can’t have nice things

It was so nice being friends again
There I was giving you a second chance
But you stabbed in the back
While shaking my hand

And therein lies the issue
Friends don’t try to trick you
Get you on the phone and mind-twist you
And so I took an axe to a mended fence

But I’m not the only friend
You’ve lost lately
If only you weren’t so shady

This is why we can’t have nice things
Darling
Because you break them
I had to take them away
This is why we can’t have nice things
(Nice things, baby)
Honey
Did you think I wouldn’t hear
All the things you said about me?
This is why we can’t have 

Here’s a toast to my real friends
They don’t care about that “he said, she said”
And here’s to my baby
He ain’t reading what they call me lately
And here’s to my momma
Had to listen to all this drama
And here’s to you
‘Cause forgiveness is a nice thing to do

Ha ha, I can’t even say it with a straight face

This is why we can’t have nice things
Darling (Darling)
Because you break them
I had to take them away
This is why we can’t have nice things
Honey (Baby)
Did you think I wouldn’t hear
All the things you said about me?

This is why we can’t have nice things
(And here’s to my real friends)
Because you break them
I had to take them 
(And here’s to my baby)
Nice things (Oh, no)
Honey
(They didn’t care about that “he said, she said”)
Did you think I wouldn’t hear
All the things you said about me?
This is why we can’t have nice things