I Know You - Sloan

When it could be said

That I’m not in time with what’s in front of me

Well who should I turn to

When there’s so many things we should go through

Back when we first met

There was a storm off Chebucto Head

And some people I didn’t like

And there’s someone here that you and I recognize

She’s not you

It’s not me

It’s just a bit of everybody else

And all the others they surround

It won’t do

It can’t be

When is it time for winter’s white to melt

For all the people in this town

If I never considered

A little drop in the pressure that defines me as human

I try not to let it go

You never tell by the pick of the litter

It keeps coming back in the tides and swells

And there’s nothing to hold it at bay

I figured you knew that

And who stood up, was there anybody out there

I never thought to ask

It made the time pass

Knowing that I didn’t care

I’m wishing for some other chances

There wasn’t time to review all the circumstances

Of all the particular sounds

Converging around us

And then the sky’s gone out

Was on a record player in the middle of the city

On a song that I never enjoyed

Until I got older

So you carried it up to the finish

And that version of yourself began to diminish

And nobody saw it go down

And I thought I knew you

She isn’t you

It wasn’t me

It was a bit of everybody else

And all the others they surround

It won’t do

It can’t be

When is it time for winter’s white to melt

For all the people in this town

Never, not again

Will I commit to looking carefully back

At places I didn’t go

When there’s so many people I’ll never know