[Verse 1]

Running from the suburbs

Skipping heartbeats

Living by our own front teeth

Put my faith into a number

And push the odds aside

We swore we'd make it out alive

But you lied

[Pre-Chorus]

An old dream still haunts me

A time machine

[Chorus]

I knew you then

Ripped jeans in a playground of cement

I knew you then

Gold rings, but you never could commit

[Verse 2]

I heard you're living somewhere upstate with a new life

Is that really what you had in mind?

But I don't wanna let go, and watch it all unfold

I couldn't if I even tried, and I tried

[Pre-Chorus]

You left me stuck sixteen

Without a time machine

[Chorus]

I knew you then

Ripped jeans in a playground of cement

I knew you then

Gold rings, but you never could commit

I knew you then, I knew you then

[Bridge]

I knew you then, I knew you then

[Chorus]

I knew you then

Ripped jeans in a playground of cement

I knew you then

Gold rings, but you never could commit

I knew you then, I knew you then