I Knew Before You Did

yeah… I knew… I knew… I knew… (I knew before you did)

I told you “you deserve better”

you heard it… but not the same

my brothers said it too

your brothers said it again

we were all saying it loud

but it didn’t land the same (no…)

cause something was already in the way

something in the way… in the way…

and I can’t explain it clean

but I felt the shift in between

I knew before you did

but I don’t say it like I won

I knew before you did

but it didn’t reach where you were

we were speaking, speaking

you were somewhere else

I knew before you did

but you were never hearing it clean

not clean… not clean… (no)

not clean… not clean…

you started drifting mid-convo

like half your mind wasn’t there

we’d say it again, say it again

but it broke in the air

and I don’t think you were ignoring it

I think it changed on the way

like something was already rewriting

what you were able to take

and I didn’t understand it then

but I feel it now in my head

I knew before you did

but I don’t hold it like truth

I knew before you did

but it didn’t mean I could reach you

we were speaking, speaking

you were somewhere else

I knew before you did

but it never came through clean

it wasn’t that you didn’t hear us

it was already bent in the sound

like something got in between it

before it ever got out

and that’s the part I can’t shake

that’s the part that stays

I knew… I knew… I knew…

but it never reached you

I knew before you did

but I don’t say it like it helps

I knew before you did

but I don’t say it at all now

we were speaking, speaking

you were somewhere else

I knew before you did

but you were never hearing it clean

yeah… I knew… I knew… (before you did…)