Released: August 19, 2020

Songwriter: Andrew Goldstein Lauv ​blackbear

Producer: Lauv Andrew Goldstein ​blackbear

[Intro: blackbear]
Yeah, yeah

[Chorus: blackbear]
If I were you and you were me
I would say goodbye, turn around and leave
I'd do it all so differently
If I were you and you were me

[Verse 1: blackbear]
Yeah
I would get up in the middle of a dinner, pour a drink on your head
I would never clean the room and I would never make the bed
'Cause if you knew the bullshit I was pullin' in the past
If I were you, I'd never let me stab you in the back, yeah

[Pre-Chorus: blackbear]
And I wonder if we flipped the script
I wouldn't be such a dick
If I was you and you was me
I wouldn't put up with the shit
But why is it we hurt each other?
Why we so depressed and shit?

[Chorus: blackbear & Lauv]
If I were you and you were me
I would say goodbye, turn around and leave
I'd do it all so differently
If I were you and you were me
If I were you, I'd look at me
See through all the lies, turn around and leave
I'd do it all so differently
If I were you and you were me (Yeah, yeah)

[Verse 2: Lauv]
We never even kissed, yeah, I would change that
You went back to your ex, I fuckin' hate that
The second that I showed any emotion (Emotion)
You cut me off, I guess that's just the motion (The motion), yeah
Good God, you're so mean
Girl, if I were you and you were me
I would never leave your heart this broken
This love is so annoyin'

[Chorus: blackbear]
If I were you and you were me
I would say goodbye, turn around and leave
I'd do it all so differently
If I were you and you were me
If I were you, I'd look at me
See through all the lies, turn around and leave
I'd do it all so differently
If I were you and you were me

[Post-Chorus: Lauv]
If I were you
If I were you
If I were you
If I were you

[Pre-Chorus: blackbear]
Yeah
And I wonder if we flipped the script
I wouldn't be such a dick
If I was you and you was me
I wouldn't put up with the shit
But why is it we hurt each other?
Why we so depressed and shit?

[Chorus: blackbear & Lauv]
If I were you and you were me
I would say goodbye, turn around and leave
I'd do it all so differently
If I were you and you were me (If I were you)
If I were you, I'd look at me (If I were you)
See through all the lies, turn around and leave
I'd do it all so differently
If I were you and you were me

[Post-Chorus: Lauv & blackbear]
If I were you
If I were you (I'd do it all so differently)
If I were you
If I were you (Yeah)

[Outro: blackbear]
Yeah, yeah
(Turn around and leave)

​blackbear & Lauv

American singers blackbear and Lauv collaborated on the track “if i were u” from the former’s fifth studio album, everything means nothing. This serves as the first (and so far, only) collaboration between the two acts, however, more collaborations may come in the future.