Lyric

Thought I had it figured out

I don’t chase what’s gone

Work gets my best decisions

Love gets every one wrong

Phone lights up in the dark

Three words across the screen

I knew it wasn’t you

Still I looked before I breathed

Guess I’m just no good at this

I know every rule until it hits

My mind says, “Leave it where it was”

My heart never listens much

Your name in someone else’s message

That’s all it takes to pull me back

I read around it like it isn’t there

Then every word after turns black

I don’t call

I don’t write

I let the screen go dark again

I should know better

But your name knows better

Your name knows better than I do

I’m tellin’ her, “Don’t text him”

Like I’ve got it figured out

Then I scroll our old conversation

With the brightness turned down

Funny how I sound convincing

When the story isn’t mine

Everybody wants my answers

I just borrow someone else’s lines

My mind knows better than my heart

That’s the funniest part

I thought I’d be over it by now

Still you slip through somehow

Your name in someone else’s message

That’s all it takes to pull me back

I read around it like it isn’t there

Then every word after turns black

I don’t call

I don’t write

I let the screen go dark again

I should know better

But your name knows better

Your name knows better than I do

No big goodbye

No dramatic scene

Just two people getting quieter

Between “read” and “seen”

Now all that’s left

Is a thread I never clear

I don’t miss the conversation

I miss who I was in there

Your name in someone else’s message

And suddenly it’s two a.m

I read around it like it isn’t there

Then scroll back up and read again

I don’t call

I don’t write

I almost make it through the night

Maybe I know better

But your name knows better

Your name knows better than I do

Your name knows better

Your name knows better

Better than I do