Everett Station -

If I knew then what I know now

If I knew then what I know now

I can tell you this story

I don’t know what it means

I confess it is a small thing

That happened to me

Years ago, far from home

I’d take the train

To the house where I lived

Where it cost me less to stay

And I knew a girl

But I could not speak to her

I could not accomplish

This simplest of things

If I knew then what I know now

If I knew then what I know now

Station to station

I would travel alone

Everything was closed then

People staggering home

On the platform in the rain

I saw the girl

No one else around

Yeah, just the girl

And so I approached her

And saw she was crying

And so I said to her

«Are you okay?

Why are you crying?

Tell me, what was his name?»

If I knew then what I know now

If I knew then what I know now

If I knew then what I know now

If I knew then what I know now

Then I said

«Perhaps I can help you

And then we would be friends

You would confide in me»

«And many years later

Maybe you’d write to me

We would remember

I would remember»

If I knew then what I know now

If I knew then what I know now

If I knew then what I know now

If I knew then what I know now