everybodyknowseverybody

Intro

Everybody knows everybody here

Verse 1

You meant the city's small, the night is easy

No introduction ever starts from zero

A harmless sentence, four words long

Draws a map from everyone to everywhere I've gone

Chorus

Everybody knows—

(Who knows who?)

Everybody here—

(Who was there?)

No one said its name—

(They don't have to)

What do they know?

(Which version?)

Verse 2

Introductions branch faster than I follow

A friend, a coworker, someone's ex

The conversation travels somewhere harmless

I stay behind to reconstruct the rest

Chorus

Everybody knows somebody

Somebody once knew someone

Someone could have heard somebody

Something sounded like me

I came here as myself

Who arrived before I did?

Verse 3

Two people drift away still mid-conversation

And come back laughing at a part I didn't hear

Their private minute belongs only to them

And I excel at filling in the blanks

Bridge

The night disappears in the waiting

For a question my saboteur creates

A cruelty clear enough to answer

Anything firmer than a smirky face

Chorus

Everybody knows somebody

Somebody once knew someone

Someone could have heard somebody

Something sounded like me

One version moves without a subject

Through people I have never met

I become careful in advance

Polite in self-defense

Smaller with each connection

Until I fit what they could have said

Refrain

Everybody knows everybody

Everybody knows somebody

Somebody once knew me

Someone could have heard them

Someone could believe

Someone—

(Who said it?)

(Who repeated it?)

(Who the fuck is everyone?)

Am I going insane?

Outro

I came here as myself

Everybody knows everybody

I have never felt less known