Before You’re Here - Intellectual

Watch your mother in the ocean

Hopeful doubts and freckled face

The nurses call "Congratulations!"

So now you're both alive on every wave

I love you before // you're even here

You're even here // with me

I love you before // I've seen your face

Know what your name // will be

Fear of death have me psychotic

Setting traps and daring fate

Obsessive skeptical neurotic

It all just seems ridiculous today

I love you before // you're even here

You're even here // with me

I love you before // I've seen your face

Know what your name // will be

There isn't any offer

I could picture as sweeter

No need to lighten the frame

There's nothing insubstantial

Or cliche about a feeling

Or being open this way

There isn't any offer

I could picture as sweeter

No need to lighten the frame

There's nothing insubstantial

Or cliche about a feeling

Or being open this way

I love you before // you're even here

You're even here // with me

I love you before // I've seen your face

Know what your name // will be

Essentially this is referencing the idea that a baby has been born successfully and that the mother and the baby are alive in different waves, but they of course are both alive.

The vocalist stating that he will love his child before it is born, here, and knowing what its name will be.