If I Were A Boy

Beyonce · I Am... Sasha Fierce [2008]

If I were a boy, even just for a day

I'd roll out of bed in the morning and throw on what I wanted and go

Drink beer with the guys, and chase after girls

I'd kick it with who I wanted and I'd never get confronted for it

Cause they stick up for me



If I were a boy

I think I could understand

How it feels to love a girl

I swear I'd be a better man

I'd listen to her

Cause I know how it hurts

When you lose the one you wanted

Cause he's taken you for granted

And everything you had got destroyed



If I were a boy, I would turn off my phone

Tell everyone it's broken so they think that I was sleeping alone

I'd put myself first and make the rules as I go

Cause I know that she'd be faithful, waiting for me to come home

To come home



If I were a boy

I think I could understand, oh-oh-oohh-oh

How it feels to love a girl

I swear I'd be a better man

I'd listen to her

Cause I know how it hurts

When you lose the one you wanted (Wanted)

Cause he's taken you for granted (Granted)

And everything you had got destroyed



It's a little too late for you to come back

Say it's just a mistake, think I'd forgive you like that

If you thought I would wait for you

You got it wrong



But you're just a boy

And you don't understand (yea, you don't understand, oh!)

How it feels to love a girl someday

You wish you were a better man

You don't listen to her

You don't care how it hurts

Until you lose the one you wanted

Because you've taken her for granted

And everything you had got destroyed



But you're just a boy