About The Song
“Good as I Was to You” is a song written by Billy Livsey and Don Schlitz, and recorded by American country music artist Lorrie Morgan. It was released in December 1996 as the third and final single from her album Greater Need. The song reached #4 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in May 1997.
The song depicts a woman who, after learning her significant other (either her husband or boyfriend; no distinction is made in the song), confronts him in a restaurant, where he is dining with another woman. The woman angrily tells him all the good things she’s done for him and expresses disgust and disappointment that he would respond by cheating on her. She then tells the other woman that she can have him and that she (the protagonist) no longer wants anything to do with her now ex.
The video for the song was directed by Michael Salomon. It shows Morgan pulling up in her car to a cafe on a very rainy day. She attempts to open the door, but doesn’t once she looks through the window and sees her boyfriend with another woman. She eventually goes in and confronts him, and once he tries to apologize, she angrily pulls her arm back and walks away crying. She sings the last words of the song in her car before driving away. The other woman, having seen the drama unfold between Lorrie and her boyfriend, eventually gets up from the table herself and leaves, leaving the boyfriend with nobody. Lorrie is also shown performing the song while outside the cafe, at times banging on the window to show emotion.
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Lyrics
She drove up to the restaurant where they used to dine
He was sitting at the table with someone new this time
She walked up right beside him, her face did not turn red
She looked at him so calmly, and this is what she said-
“Good as I was to you, is this the thanks I get?
Are all the years we shared so easy to forget?
Does this mean that you’ve won?
Are you finally having fun?
Is she your dream come true?
Oh, she sure looks good, but she won’t ever be good as I was to you”
The room got awful quiet, everybody stared
Finally, the waiter said, “Should I bring another chair?”
She said, “No, I was just leaving”
But as she walked out the door
She said, “Honey, you can have him, I don’t want him anymore”
Good as I was to you, is this the thanks I get?
Are all the years we shared so easy to forget?
Is the way it’s done, lookin’ out for number one?
Did you think it through?
Oh, she sure looks good, but she won’t ever be good as I was to you
Does this mean that you’ve won?
Are you finally having fun?
Is she your dream come true?
Oh, she sure looks good, but she won’t ever be good as I was to you
Mm, good as I was to you