You Always Know

Lover, stop playing games with my heart

Ain't no table for two in a one man show

There's no escape, there is nowhere to go

Only a voice screaming, "I told you so"

You always know

You always know

Lover, you held a space in my heart

But I changed all the locks there so long ago

Now I depend on the voice deep inside

Telling me, "Girl, you should run, terrified"

You always know

You always know

Where do you go when the happy home becomes a haunted house?

A skeleton in every closet, a ghost in every room?

A poisoned well in the backyard?

It's a feeling deceptive as a sunny day in winter

Warm blue sky, and sun hanging like a soft hopeful curtain

But on the ground? Ice

You stop trusting your eyes after a while

Then you stop trusting your footing

Then you stop caring altogether

Eventually to love means we all learn to dance in the dark

Put on our masks, become something else

Lover, you held a space in my heart

But I changed all the locks there so long ago

Now I depend on the voice deep inside

Telling me, "Girl, you should run, terrified"

You always know

You always know

You should only ever allow yourself the luxury of crying over someone once

Everything else is merely chasing the dragon

The first time can't be helped after all

Crying is but a grief-induced siren, uncontainable in it's release

Ecstatic once fully realized

To feel this again with the initial intensity means you make a choice

To purposely seek out oblivion

Magic may reoccur but only ever that one time exactly that way

All else is doomed to spend lifetimes measuring up

Hope becomes a fool's game

Hope becomes nothing more than choices

And it's choices that put you here in the first place

You always know

You always know

You always know

You always know

No, no, no, no, no

You always know

You always know

You always know

You always know

No, no, no, no, no

Lover, stop playing games with my heart

Ain't no table for two in a one man show

There's no escape

There is no place to go

Only a voice screaming, "I told you so"

You always know

You always know, oh

Lover, stop playing games with my heart

Ain't no table for two in a one man show

There's no escape and there's no place to go

Only a voice screaming, "I told you so"

You always know

You always know

You always know