[Verse 1] That June day came in bright, the kind that fools the eye Your cousin gone at home, and summer asking why Then she arrived with careful words, said she'd help you through One look across the room, and all your sense withdrew You took her hand like shelter, let her set the pace I watched a stranger settle in your familiar place I should have asked you plainly, should have seen the signs But grief had blurred the edges, and she crossed the lines [Chorus] How could you be so blind? How could I not see? She came dressed up as mercy And took the trust from me Maybe it was the shock, maybe grief had made me kind She hit like a bullet between the eyes How could I be so blind? [Verse 2] July burned white above the rows of folded chairs I laid my cousin down and she was waiting there She gave you all the tenderness you thought you'd never known While I stood near the doorway, watching you let go I asked myself in silence, did I miss the change? Was love the thing you needed, or a way to make you strange? The days kept turning over, but the doubt stayed near I knew the room was different; I just couldn't make it clear [Chorus] How could you be so blind? How could I not see? She came dressed up as mercy And took the trust from me Maybe it was the shock, maybe grief had made me kind She hit like a bullet between the eyes How could I be so blind? [Verse 3] August came around and something felt untrue My cousin gone to smoke; she'd help you smoke some too But that was only surface, not the deeper thing beneath The way she held the story, the air you couldn't breathe I started feeling managed, doubting what I'd heard I couldn't trust my own thoughts, couldn't say a word I kept on calling it a phase, kept letting time decide The warning sat between us; I kept it locked inside [Chorus] How could I have been so blind? How could I not see? She came dressed up as mercy And took the trust from me Maybe it was the shock, maybe grief had made me kind She hit like a bullet between the eyes How could I be so blind? [Verse 4] September slips my memory; the edges won't stay still I fell into her careful web, caught deeper by her will The good I'd done came loose, the days grew hard to name Did I love her, or was I sleeping through the frame? I can't explain it even now, the truth still takes its time A heart can lose its bearings while the clues are in plain sight I carry every question like a stone I can't unwind I knew the world was turning; I just couldn't read the signs [Final Chorus] How could I have been so blind? How could I not see? She came dressed up as mercy And took the trust from me Maybe it was the shock, maybe grief had made me kind She hit like a fifty-cal slug between the eyes How could I have been so blind? [Outro] So blind I couldn't trust my mind So blind How could I not see?
