She was a girl with a smile always on her face I remember it like it was yesterday But it's a bittersweet memory It's a cut that will ever bleed And the time in the dark When she sat right next to me I couldn't help thinking This is how it ought to be, yeah But little did I know The future was bittersweet And little did I know That we were not meant to be Then my father said don't be lost in yesterday, oh When your dreams are dead Let some new ones come to play, oh 'Cause the past is gone And there's nothing you can change, yeah And the pain will be just a memory that we made 'Cause life is bittersweet She was a good girl, no one could save me Love is insanity, she drove me crazy But it's a bittersweet memory It's in my mind playing on repeat And the time we spent, I never could forget 'Cause this is a cruel world And that's just how it is, yeah But little did I know The future was bittersweet And little did I know That we were not meant to be Then my father said don't be lost in yesterday, oh When your dreams are dead Let some new ones come to play, oh 'Cause the past is gone And there's nothing you can change, yeah And the pain will be just a memory that we made 'Cause life is bittersweet Wounds, they will mend and turn into scars But nothing can mend my heart There's nothing in the back of my mind Always haunting me But if I push it down, bury it deep Lock away my painful memories Pass the key, I'm free to dream Even if it's bittersweet Then my father said don't be lost in yesterday, oh When your dreams are dead Let some new ones come to play, oh 'Cause the past is gone And there's nothing you can change, yeah And the pain will be just a memory that we made 'Cause life is bittersweet