[Verse 1]

A stone house with brick walls

And a good foundation should never fall

But when you use dynamite for construction

Better prepare for that grand eruption

And if you're hoping the wind is blowing

In a way that will keep your circuits cool

Then you're the fool (And so was I)

And all I could hear was an army of voices ringing in my ear

And telling me, “The choice is gone

There's no place to run”

And all I could hear was you telling me, "I'm only

Good with my back in a bed while you settle the score"

With my face pushed to the floor

[Bridge]

And yeah, I should've known better (Better)

But I, I swear it was better before

[Verse 2]

Good face and a sweet tongue

With the family swearing that he's the one

But when you close off the doors and connections

Isolation as his means of deception

It's pretty easy keeping quiet

When your mouth's held shut by someone else's violence

And the only thing worse than the noise was silence

'Cause then you never know what'll happen next

If you're lucky, it's nothing

If you're not, he’ll call it sex

But that was just to make himself feel better

Wasn't it? (Well, wasn't it?)

All I could see was a stranger in the mirror

With blood on her lips and her mind giving into doubt

“There's no way out of this”

[Hook]

And all I could see in retrospect

Are all the memories

That I wish would have stayed repressed

It was easier to give sympathy

When I was still denying that it happened to (Happened to, happened to)

[Outro]

And yeah, I should've known better (You kept telling me)

Yeah, I should've known better (You kept telling me)

Yeah, I should've known better (they keep telling me)

But I, I swear it was better before