“If I Hated You” is the second official single and the lead single from FLETCHER’s sophomore EP with Capital Records, “The S(ex) Tapes”. The song was due to be first performed live on FLETCHER’s postponed sophomore Europe tour in March 2020.
[Verse 1]
If I hated you, I know that
I could do this on my own, own
If you weren't so good to me, then
I could change the background of my phone, phone
[Pre-Chorus]
You know I dream about
Getting back together in the future
I could focus on you
Focus on you
But if I leave right now
I hope that you don't find someone
That touches you the way that I do
The way that I do (Ah, ah, ah)
[Chorus]
My bedtime is the darkest
That's when I'm brokenhearted
The nighttime is the hardest
It'd be easy if I hated you
I'd leave the after party
I wouldn't miss your body
The nighttime is the hardest
It'd be easy if I hated you
[Post-Chorus]
If I hated you
[Verse 2]
Took an eyelash off my face
Said, "Make a wish," and I made three
(All three, oh)
Wish I could've loved you better
Wish you'd kiss me; wish I wasn't me, me
[Pre-Chorus]
You know I dream about
Getting back together in the future
I could focus on you
Focus on you
But if I leave you now
I hope that you don't find someone
That touches you the way that I do
The way that I do (Ah, ah, ah)
[Chorus]
My bedtime is the darkest
That's when I'm brokenhearted
The nighttime is the hardest
It'd be easy if I hated you
I'd leave the after party
I wouldn't miss your body
The nighttime is the hardest
It'd be easy if I hated you
[Post-Chorus]
If I hated you
[Bridge]
I just wanna stay right here
Lay right here, don't go nowhere
Don't go, don't go
And I just wanna love like that
We know that we can't go there
Can't go, can't go, ooh
[Chorus]
My bedtime is the darkest
That's when I'm brokenhearted
The nighttime is the hardest
It'd be easy if I hated you
I'd leave the after party
I wouldn't miss your body
The nighttime is the hardest
It'd be easy if I hated you
[Post-Chorus]
If I hated you
(If I hated you)
If I hated you
If I Hated You was produced by Malay.
FLETCHER released If I Hated You on Wed Aug 12 2020.
This was the very first song I wrote for the project. It’s about how when things get hard, it’s easier to be angry than it is to be sad. To think to yourself, “This would be so much easier if I hated you, and I kind of wish you had done something to fuck me over so that I had more of a reason to jus...