Verse 1
I know the way you take your coffee,
how you laugh when you’re dead tired,
the little crease above your eyebrow
when your whole world’s stretched too wired.
I know the songs you hum half-conscious,
the stories tucked behind your grin,
and every time you lean in closer
it feels like letting danger in.
Pre-Chorus
And I play it cool,
like my heart don’t move—
but it breaks formation
every time you do.
Chorus
If you knew
how your name sounds in my chest,
like a prayer I never finish,
like a wound that never rests.
If you knew
how I carry you around,
in the spaces no one sees,
in the silence, in the sound.
Would you run?
Would you stay?
Would it change the way you look at me?
God, I wish you knew—
but I’m terrified you’ll see.
Verse 2
You talk to me like it is easy,
like I’m just another friend,
and I smile like that’s enough for me
while I’m breaking at the ends.
You don’t know the wars I’ve buried
just to keep this safe and small,
how loving you in secret
feels like building homes that never call.
Pre-Chorus
And maybe it’s cruel,
wanting what I can’t hold—
but your gravity keeps pulling
at the cracks inside my soul.
Chorus
If you knew
how your hands live in my mind,
how your voice can turn a bad day
into something almost kind.
If you knew
how I fold around your light,
like the moon caught chasing sun
knowing day was never mine.
Would you run?
Would you stay?
Would you tell me it was all in vain?
God, I wish you knew—
but I don’t know if I’d survive the change.
Bridge
So I’ll keep you in the almost,
in the words I never say,
in the glances, in the pauses,
in the part of me that stays.
And if one day you turn and ask me
what’s been burning in my eyes—
I’ll tell you
it was you
the whole damn time.
Final Chorus
If you knew
would it ruin everything?
Or would you pull me closer
and confess the same to me?
If you knew
all the love I couldn’t hide—
maybe I’d lose you forever,
or maybe I’d finally be alive.
That’s the gamble,
that’s the truth,
that’s the knife I’m walking through.
God, I wish you knew.
