IF you Only Knew

(Intro)

(Room tone, soft inhale before the first line, piano barely touched)

Yeah…

(Mmm)

There’s a lot I don’t say

But I feel everything

(Verse 1)

(Low piano notes, subtle tape hiss)

I notice how you pause before you smile

Like you’re deciding if it’s safe this time

You keep your guard up like a loaded gun

But still let me close enough to feel the sun

I memorize the way you say my name

Like you’re scared it might mean something

You tell me stories but you skip the pain

I hear the silence in what you’re not saying

(Background vocal whispers “I hear you”)

Every time you pull away

I stay steady, I don’t chase

But it kills me all the same

(Pre-Chorus)

(Drums drop out, pad swells)

I rehearse the words a thousand nights

But they die right at the edge of my tongue

‘Cause love feels louder when it’s unspoken

And I’m scared once it’s real, it’s done

(Chorus)

(Drums come in gently, layered harmonies)

If you knew

How many times I almost crossed that line

If you knew

How often I put your heart before mine

I’d give you my peace, my pride, my past

Every part of me built to last

If you knew

How deep this feeling goes

You’d stop pretending you don’t know

If you knew

(Verse 2)

(Bass glides, guitar echoes)

I see your phone light up, you turn it down

Like you don’t want ghosts in the room right now

I don’t ask who hurt you back then

But I feel it every time you flinch

You say love never stays the same

That it fades or turns to blame

But I’m not here to play pretend

I’m not them, I won’t disappear

(Harmony rises)

I’d learn your moods

Your darkest days

The parts of you you push away

(Pre-Chorus 2)

(Builds slightly higher than first)

I don’t need to own your heart

I just want a chance to hold it

But you’re afraid of falling hard

And I’m afraid you’ll never notice

(Chorus)

(Full but restrained — emotional, not loud)

If you knew

What I’d do just to make you stay

If you knew

How I pray you don’t walk away

I’d give you my nights, my trust, my name

No escape, no running away

If you knew

How real this feeling is

You’d stop fighting what this is

If you knew

(Bridge)

(Beat drops out completely, piano + vocal only)

I won’t promise forever in a sentence

I know how that sounds

But I’ll show up every time

When the world lets you down

I’ll love you loud

Or love you quiet

However you need

Just don’t make me invisible

Standing right in front of you

(Low harmony: “I’m right here”)

(Final Chorus)

(Beat returns, biggest emotional moment)

If you knew

How my chest tightens when you leave

If you knew

How much you already mean to me

I’d build you a love that doesn’t bruise

One you don’t have to lose

If you knew

You’d never question me

‘Cause I’m already all in, deep

If you knew

(Outro)

(Instruments fade, breathy vocal echo)

Maybe one day you’ll feel it too

Everything I never said to you

(Mmm)

If you knew