[Verse 1] Summer of twenty eighteen Something bent in the air Not the same Gabriele But she came back there More grounded in her step More certain in her name Like she found her own pulse And it never played the same [Pre-Chorus] Then I met Thomas Next summer, New Haven heat Gabriele texted me He was in the city Then a few days later She said Colombia I laughed too hard at that Then I froze on the reply [Chorus] Gradually, then all at once She came back into herself Gradually, then all at once No one else could name that spell I was watching her watch him Watching her, watching him Gradually, then all at once She knew what lived within [Verse 2] I had that old map Wrong jungle in my mind Militias, drug lords All that lazy kind I texted, half a joke Half a fear I couldn’t hide Are you sure he’s not one? Her emoji burned the sky At Carroll Gardens Artists pressed around the room No labels, no entrance Just a brief, strange bloom He drifted to the edge Near the food, near the door Not lost, just recalibrating Like I’d never seen before [Pre-Chorus] Gabriele wasn’t clinging She was studying the scene Not beside him, not orbiting She was watching keen She asked me, what do you think And I felt the shift He wasn’t her possession He was something in the mix [Chorus] Gradually, then all at once She came back into herself Gradually, then all at once No one else could name that spell I was watching her watch him Watching her, watching him Gradually, then all at once She knew what lived within [Bridge] He was wealthy, yes The jet, the money too But none of that meant much In the way she moved Estonia, government Systems in his head And every time she named him Something else in me woke up instead Not wanting him Not even wanting the claim Just wanting her mind When his name came into frame [Final Chorus] Gradually, then all at once She came back into herself Gradually, then all at once No one else could name that spell I was watching her watch him Watching her, watching him Gradually, then all at once She knew what lived within
