Released: January 11, 2019

Songwriter: Ace Enders Garrett Nash

Producer: Ace Enders Garrett Nash

[Verse 1]
Once upon a time, I still believed in myself
I was happy being me and didn't need any help
And then somebody that I trusted crushed the feelings I felt
I guess a happy never after was the deal I was dealt

[Pre-Chorus]
True love doesn't have a happy ending
'Cause when it's real, it doesn't ever end
If I did a rewrite, would I change a damn thing?
Would I flip the script or would I do it all again?

[Chorus]
Am I the hero or maybe the villain?
Am I the sidekick or even the fill-in?
I'll keep going out for every role
In a story that'll never be told
If I wrote you a note, would you ever listen?
If we never met, would you be who I'm missing?
I'll keep writin' 'til I feel I complete
The story that'll never be we

[Verse 2]
I been havin' trouble with believin' in love
Ever since the day you left me, it depressed me and thus
I haven't met somebody worth believin' in much
I guess the movies I grew up on didn't teach me enough
Learnin' to grow and go and sew a broken heart up
Doesn't happen in an hour just like Hollywood does
There's a problem and you solve it, that's the way they taught us
But how am I supposed to fix me if I'm all that I've got?

[Pre-Chorus]
True love doesn't have a happy ending (No, it doesn't)
'Cause when it's real, it's never really dead
If I did a rewrite, would I change a damn thing?
Would I flip the script or would I do it all again?

[Chorus]
Am I the hero or maybe the villain?
Maybe the sidekick or even the fill-in
I'll keep going out for every role
In a story that'll never grow old
If I wrote you a note, I hope that you'd listen
And if we never met, you'd probably be who I'm missing
I'll keep writin' 'til I feel I complete
The story that'll never be we
Yeah, we'll never be we
Yeah, we'll never be we

[Outro]
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​gnash

gnash is an American producer, singer, songwriter, who started out as a DJ. His stage name comes from a shortening of his real name Garett Nash.

He stated he transitioned from DJing to producing his own music by having “a bunch of feelings I wanted to get off my chest and all my friends and family were tried of hearing me talk about it, so I started making music about it instead.”

His best-known song “i hate u, i love u” is an interpolation of Olivia O'Briens’s “hate u love u” and peaked at #10 in the Billboard Hot 100 and on #1 in the national charts of Australia and Israel.