[brief melodic instrumental after first chorus. Outro builds with repeating interlocking guitar loops entering one by one while bass and drums keep driving forward, accumulating into a hypnotic melodic tangle before gradually unraveling and fading. [Intro - brief clean guitar figure, warm analog room tone, sparse and intimate] [Verse 1 - restrained male vocal, long conversational phrases, fingerpicked guitar and soft melodic bass] Would we want to know the ending, to be told before it starts? Would we take the road before us if we knew it'd break our hearts? Maybe it just goes to show It is better not to know [Verse 2 - clipped phrasing, light drums enter, small melodic guitar answers] On some other city street See some other people meet Another me, another you Different year, different view [Chorus - gentle melodic lift, warm harmony vocal, fuller but still restrained] Should we give them their odds Like we're some all-knowing gods? Or perhaps on second thought Maybe better we do not Let them go in new love's glow It is better not to know [Instrumental - melodic electric guitar figure, slightly distorted, bass moving underneath, brief expansion before pulling back] [Verse 3 - long conversational phrases return, arrangement sparse again] Would they want to know their story, every stumble, every stall Would they recognize the moment that foretells their downfall Maybe we should let it go Maybe best if they don't know [Verse 4 - clipped phrasing again, drums and bass gradually building] On another city night Under different streetlight Someone else's stolen kiss Someone else's chance gets missed [Chorus - fuller return, layered guitars and understated backing harmonies] Do they care about odds? Probabilities from gods? Maybe yes, or maybe not Let them keep what they have got Days will go and years will show Maybe better they don't know [Short instrumental, rising finger picking loops] [Outro - rising progressively interlocking guitar loops, staccato delivery] Will we stay or will we go? it is best we don't know What's the answer, yes or no? It is better not to know The old tales from years ago? It is best we don't know Live or perish in the flow? It' is better not to know [Instrumental outro - guitar loops progressively build one by one, overlapping and answering each other; melodic bass grows more active beneath restrained drums; warm distortion gradually accumulates; hypnotic and bittersweet, no conventional guitar solo; loops continue evolving before slowly dissolving into a fade]
