[ɪᴄʜɪ] I thought you knew what happened when my answers became small I thought you'd hear the difference when I barely spoke at all I thought you'd know that “leave me” sometimes meant “don't disappear” That I'd never make you guess at something I believed was clear But how could you have known what I refused to let you see? How could I call it obvious when it only lived in me? I kept waiting for you to notice what I never let come through Then blamed you for not knowing I thought you knew [ɪᴄʜɪ] I thought you knew I thought love somehow told you Every word I couldn't get myself to say I thought you knew What I needed you to do Like loving me could read what I concealed away Now every “you should've known” Comes back asking what I showed Maybe knowing me was never knowing what to do I thought you knew God, I thought you knew [ɪᴄʜɪ] You thought I'd know your distance wasn't asking me to leave I thought your hesitation meant you stopped believing me You thought I'd hear “I'm frightened” underneath “I'm doing fine” I thought you'd hear “come closer” every time I drew the line We made intuition something love was meant to prove Then punished one another every time we missed a cue How many things went unanswered because neither one came through? You thought I knew And I thought you knew [ᴀᴍøʏʀᴀ ] I thought I knew And you thought you knew me Not because we missed the signs We read them way too easily I thought I knew What your silence meant to say You heard mine and filled the blanks With what had worked another day The love was never absent That's the part that cuts right through We knew each other well enough To stop asking what was true I thought you knew God, I thought you knew [ᴀᴍøʏʀᴀ ] We knew each other down to every change in tone Half a sentence, other half already known You heard the weight when all my wording got compressed I knew which silence meant you needed time to process We held so much between us, silence felt complete Let the weight do all the talking, waiting on relief By the time we found the words, they'd fallen out of reach Close enough to matter, far enough to miss the peace You thought I knew And I thought you knew [ɪᴄʜɪ] We thought we knew We thought we knew And maybe now we know why [ᴀᴍøʏʀᴀ ] We heard each other through the years Instead of through that night [ɪᴄʜɪ] We thought we knew What the other meant to say [ᴀᴍøʏʀᴀ ] Love gave us enough history To get in our own way [ɪᴄʜɪ] The love was never absent That's what makes it hard to lose We finally know what happened Still don't know What we do [ᴀᴍøʏʀᴀ ] Oh... what we do...
