Before Everybody Knew You

I found you on my phone at two a.m.

Just another face beneath the glow

You weren't anybody's somebody yet

Just a boy I somehow couldn't let

go

Black hair falling softly in your eyes Baby blue staring through the

screen

I don't know why I stopped to watch you But something about

you pulled at me

You were just a stranger in my bedroom

A little video I watched twice And I never thought that months

from then I'd still be thinking about those eyes

And I know you don't know my name

But somehow you still changed me I watched the world discover you

While I stayed where you couldn't see

I knew you before everybody knew you

Before your face was everywhere

Back when you were just a moment on my screen

And I was falling without knowing where

Now there's thousands looking at you And I'm somewhere in the crowd

Missing someone I never had

But somehow can't live without

I remember that little castle

Tattooed quietly

across your arm

I stared at it

like it meant something

Like I'd found a map to where you are

I started recognizing all Maybe in another life

I'd be the one beside you Maybe in another world I'd have

nothing left to hide from you But here I am,

just watching

With your face burned in my mind Wanting someone so badly

Who was never meant to be mine

So I'll love you from a distance Where the wanting doesn't show

And pretend that I don't wonder

What it would've been to know

If you'd ever looked

So I memorize the shape

of your face

Every little detail I

can't erase I look away,

but I still see you

Like my heart doesn't know what it's supposed to do

I knew you before everybody knew you

Before your face was everywhere

Back when you were just a moment on my screen

And I was falling without knowing where

Now there's thousands looking at you

And I'm somewhere in the crowd Missing someone I never had

But somehow can't live without