THE VERSION OF ME I LOST

[Intro: Male, dry spoken vocal] Do you remember when I laughed too loud? [Female whisper, distant] I do. [Male] That’s weird. Because I don’t. [Glitched breath] I found an old key yesterday. Don’t know what it opened. But I remembered you. [Female whisper] You remembered you. [Silence] [Verse 1: Male, half-sung] We drew forever on a wall we didn’t own Made a little world and called the borrowed space a home Back when every bad idea was something we’d survive Before I learned you can keep breathing and still lose a life You knew the laugh before I learned to make it small Knew the dreams before I stopped admitting them at all Everybody knows me now [Beat disappears] But nobody knows who you’re remembering. [Pre-Chorus: Male/Female fragments] Male: If you saw me now Would something still feel known? Female: I know you. Male: No. You knew me. [Sub bass enters] There’s a difference. [Chorus: Male lead, female harmony] You knew a version of me Nobody else can find Sometimes I think I miss him more than I miss you tonight I knew a version of you still living in my mind Maybe we don’t miss each other [Beat cuts] Maybe we miss who we were. [Post-Chorus: fractured vocals] Who we were Who we were [Female] Who you were. [Male] Yeah. Maybe. [Verse 2: rhythmic spoken/sung] There’s still a mark beside the door from something we forgot Funny how the smallest things outlive everything they’re not New voices know me differently New hands don’t know the signs Everybody knows this version Nobody knew that life. [Female fragment] I did. [Male] I know. That’s the problem. [Build] If I saw you now Would something still break through? Would I miss you? Or would I miss the person I became around you? [Chorus] You knew a version of me Nobody else can find Sometimes I think I miss him more than I miss you tonight I knew a version of you still living in my mind Maybe we don’t miss each other Maybe we miss who we were [Experimental Break: chopped vocals] Me… You… Were… Who… Me… [Glitch] I don’t want you back. [Silence] I want me back. [Bridge: almost completely dry] I don’t want the room back I don’t want the years back I don’t need the door unlocked I don’t need another ending I don’t even know if I’d recognise you anymore. But sometimes… [Female whisper] Sometimes? [Male] Sometimes I just want to meet myself again. [Female] Which one? [Long silence] [Male] Exactly. [Final Chorus: huge] YOU KNEW A VERSION OF ME NOBODY ELSE CAN FIND SOMETIMES I THINK I MISS HIM MORE THAN I MISS YOU TONIGHT I KNEW A VERSION OF YOU NOBODY ELSE CAN FIND DO YOU EVER MISS THAT PERSON THE WAY I’M MISSING MINE? Maybe we don’t miss each other Maybe we miss who we were Maybe I don’t want you back Maybe I just want… ME. [Everything cuts] [Outro: dry male vocal] I remember you. [Female, distant] I remember you too. [Male] Good. Because I’m starting to remember me.