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BEFORE I KNEW FOREVER
[Verse 1 — intimate]
Before the worst had found me
Before I learned to leave
Before I got so good at hiding
What the world had done to me
There was you without a warning
And something in me moved
Like every locked door inside me
Forgot what locks could do
I didn’t have much worth keeping
I didn’t know who I’d become
But you looked right through the wreckage
And somehow called it love
[Pre-Chorus]
You were there
Before the armour
Before my heart learned what to fear
And every version I’ve become
Still finds its way back here
[CHORUS]
Before I knew forever
I knew you
Before I knew what love could cost
You made it true
And I’ve been lost
I’ve been gone
I’ve been somebody I don’t recognise
But there’s a place inside my heart
That never changed with time
The world can take the years
It can take what we went through
But before I knew forever—
I knew you.
[Verse 2]
Life didn’t keep its promises
Neither did I sometimes
There are things I’d give my whole life
Just to go back and make right
I learned too late that loving someone
Doesn’t mean you’ll never fail
Sometimes love survives in silence
When everything else goes to hell
And if you ever felt forgotten
If the distance made you doubt
God, I hope some part inside you
Never let my memory out
Because I’ve carried something sacred
Through every place I’ve been
The first time my heart belonged to someone
It never came back again
[Pre-Chorus]
You were there
Before the damage
Before goodbye became my way
And nothing that came after you
Could take your place away
[CHORUS]
Before I knew forever
I knew you
Before I knew what love could cost
You made it true
And I’ve been lost
I’ve been gone
I’ve been somebody I don’t recognise
But there’s a place inside my heart
That never changed with time
The world can take the years
It can take what we went through
But before I knew forever—
I knew you.
[Bridge — everything drops]
If I could meet the person I was then
I’d grab her by the hands
I’d tell her,
“You don’t understand what you’ve been given.
Don’t blink.
Don’t run.
Don’t waste a second thinking
you’ll get these years again.”
Because time is fucking ruthless
It doesn’t care who wasn’t ready
It doesn’t stop while you’re surviving
It just keeps leaving
[silence]
And that’s the part that kills me.
Not that everything changed.
That you did…
while I was trying to.
[Final Chorus — restrained at first]
Before I knew forever
I knew you
Before the world got underneath my skin
You were the truth
And I have loved
And I have lost
And I’ve watched whole pieces of me disappear
But the oldest love inside my chest
Is still the loudest thing I hear
[build]
So let them have my failures
Let them have the things I’ve done
Let history tell every ugly story
Of the person I became
But there is one thing
It will never get to rewrite—
I loved you first.
Before the darkness.
Before the distance.
Before I knew how badly
A heart could bruise.
[FULL VOICE]
BEFORE I KNEW FOREVER—
I KNEW YOU.
Details
GeneratedSep 12, 2026
Duration4:57
LanguageEnglish
Style
Female vocal,Cinematic acoustic soul-pop × emotional R&B × singer-songwriter ballad.
Credits
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