You Broke Me First

Album

Too Young to be Sad

Label

RCA Records

Genre

-Pop

Composer(s)

Tate McRae;Blake Harnage;Victoria Zaro

Entered Chart

Sep 5, 2020

Peak Date

Mar 13, 2021

Released

April 17, 2020

Recorded

Unknown

Catalog #

RCA

"You Broke Me First" is a song by Canadian singer Tate McRae. It was released on April 17, 2020, through RCA Records as the lead single from her second extended play, Too Young to Be Sad (2021). The song gained popularity on the video-sharing platform TikTok, where it has featured in over a million videos. The song is the second most streamed song released by a female artist in 2020.[citation needed] The song impacted mainstream US radio on August 4, 2020.

Intro] 
You broke me first 

[Verse 1] 
Maybe you don't like talking too much about yourself 
But you shoulda told me 
That you were thinking 'bout someone else 
You're drunk at a party 
Or maybe it's just that your car broke down 
Your phone's been off for a couple of months 
So you're calling me now 

[Pre-Chorus] 
I know you, you're like this 
When shit don't go your way you needed me to fix it 
And like me, I did 
But I ran out of every reason 

[Chorus] 
Now suddenly you're asking for it back 
Could you tell me, where'd you get the nerve? 
Yeah, you could say you miss all that we had 
But I don't really care how bad it hurts 
When you broke me first 
You broke me first 

[Verse 2] 
Took a while, was in denial when I first heard 
That you moved on quicker than I could've ever 
You know that hurt 
Swear, for a while I would stare at my phone 
Just to see your name 
But now that it's there, I don't really know what to say 

[Pre-Chorus] 
I know you, you're like this 
When shit don't go your way you needed me to fix it 
And like me, I did 
But I ran out of every reason 

[Chorus] 
Now suddenly you're asking for it back 
Could you tell me, where'd you get the nerve? 
Yeah, you could say you miss all that we had 
But I don't really care how bad it hurts 
When you broke me first 
You broke me first 

[Bridge] 
What did you think would happen? 
What did you think would happen? 
I'll never let you have it 
What did you think would happen? 

[Chorus] 
Now suddenly you're asking for it back 
Could you tell me, where'd you get the nerve? 
Yeah, you could say you miss all that we had 
But I don't really care how bad it hurts 
When you broke me first 
You broke me first (You broke me first) 
You broke me first, ooh oh