[Verse 1] We made it sweeter cleaned up the bitter edge cut out every little flaw until nothing tasted wrong Kept the best parts threw the rest away another perfect version better than yesterday [Pre-Chorus] No one wrote it down No one thought we’d need to [Chorus] What was the original flavor? I know this one tastes better I know we got it right What was the original flavor? I can name every improvement but I can’t remember why [Verse 2] We made it brighter took the noise out of the sound fixed the crooked frequencies smoothed the roughness down Version after version we learned what not to keep now the latest one is beautiful and strangely incomplete [Pre-Chorus] There must have been a reason we started changing it [Chorus] What was the original flavor? I know this one tastes better I know we got it right What was the original flavor? I can trace every correction but I can’t find the first mistake [Bridge] Don’t restore it Don’t recreate it Don’t pretend the old one must have been better I don’t want it back I just want to know what it was [Final Chorus] What was the original flavor? Everything here is better everything works just right What was the original flavor? We kept improving the answer until we forgot the question
