Nelly Furtado
What I Wanted lyrics
- Language
- English
- Level
- Beginner
- Released
- 2006
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 3:56
I turned my head away
Didn't wanna hear what you said
You had changed your mind
I showed up insecure
But I thought you would be sure
I guess I had lost sight
But at the end of my life
I'll look back of my life
And I'll know that my life was good
At the end of my life
I'll look back of my life
And see I went after you like I should
I went after what I wanted
I went after what I wanted
And I never really got it
But it don't matter at all
I guess it was a lot
To ask for these things we'd lost
I guess it was just a dream
And time changes many things
But my heart it still sings
For you, I don't know why
But at the end of my life
I'll look back of my life
And I'll know that my life was good
At the end of my life
I'll look back of my life
And see I went after you like I should
I went after what I wanted
I went after what I wanted
And I never really got it
But it don't matter at all
I thought I'd spend my last days holding your hand
Now how can I
Since he's lying dead on the floor
But at the end of my life
I'll look back of my life
And I'll know that my life was good
At the end of my life
I'll look back of my life
We'll see I went after you like I should
I went after what I wanted
I went after what I wanted
And I never really got it
Everything else I lost it
I went after what I wanted
I went after what I wanted
And the rest don't really matter
It don't matter at all
It don't matter at all
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Key vocabulary
- never
- not at any timeA1
- sure
- certainA1
- things
- objects; mattersA1
- turned
- changed directionA1
- insecure
- not confident, worried
- sight
- ability to seeB1
- i'll
- I will (future)A2
- after
- later in timeA1
- don't
- do notA1
- we'd
- we would
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About this song
Nelly Furtado is a Canadian singer-songwriter whose work spans pop, folk, dance, R&B, hip-hop, Latin pop, and worldbeat. She is best known for transforming across genres, beginning with the breakthrough single “I’m Like a Bird” and later hits such as “Promiscuous” and “Maneater.”