knocked

Instrumental Intro

Verse 1

He keeps it quiet like a cabin in the pines

Shutters drawn and door bolted every night

They call him stone they call him winter they call him ice

But I knocked first

I knocked alone

Four years back I asked can I sit down

You blinked at me like nobody ever came around

You barely spoke but you shifted just enough

So I stayed

Pre-Chorus

I cracked the quiet

I learned the language slow

I thought the first one through the door

Was the one you'd hold

Chorus

Then she asked you by the fire

Do you love her and you said it proud

Happy like a boy with a secret he's found

She's my best friend

She's my best friend

You said my name like a prayer you keep

But not the name you'd want to keep

And I was the one who knocked

The one who chose you first

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh

Knock knock

Oh-oh

Who's there

Verse 2

Now you carry me over rivers on your spine

You save your soft for me the soft you never find

You smile and gods you only smile that way for me

And for a second I believe

That it could mean what I want it to mean

Pre-Chorus

But the door stays half

The welcome stays thin

I keep mistaking the threshold

For the room within

Chorus

Then she asked you by the fire

Do you love her and you said it proud

Happy like a boy with a secret he's found

She's my best friend

She's my best friend

You said my name like a prayer you keep

But not the name you'd want to keep

And I was the one who knocked

The one who chose you first

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh

Knock knock

Oh-oh

Who's there

Bridge

I would sit inside your silence a hundred years

I would hold the quiet close and call it dear

I dragged you out of lonely

You only walked me over water

You let me ride

You never let me stay

In the house I knocked on first

Chorus

Then she asked you by the fire

Do you love her and you said it proud

Happy like a boy with a secret he's found

She's my best friend

She's my best friend

You said my name like a prayer you keep

But not the name you'd want to keep

And I was the one who knocked

The one who chose you first

Post-Chorus

Knock knock

Oh-oh

Knock knock

Who's there