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I thought I knew you before

from Since Life Stood Still by Lorna Brooks

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Music written & arranged - Lorna Brooks
Lyrics - Lorna Brooks & Mark McDonnell
Produced by Dave Oscillation & Lorna Brooks

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I thought I knew you before,
I thought I knew but now I'm not so sure
I thought I knew you before,
Way back when, when then was then
Before I'd evened up the score
I thought I knew...

Remember, spring was in our steps,
The colours bursting through our eyes.
Heightening our senses
And promising our lives - our lives

A short hot summer took us way up high.
Sunlight shimmering across your skin,
Hazing, lazing by the water's edge,
Letting love and hope begin.- Begin.

I thought I knew you before,
Thought I knew how to keep it pure.
I thought I knew you before,
And it's not so very long ago
I said I'd been fooled before
I thought I knew...

Then Autumn blew it’s leaves at us
The colours swirling through the park.
Laughing as we fanned our flames.
Warming while the world turned dark. - Turned dark.
I thought I knew you before (2)


Without apologising, winter came
The sky turned to gun-metal grey.
Oh there’s nothing more heart-breaking
Than all those tears on Christmas Day - on Christmas Day.


I thought I knew you before,
Thought I was bullet proof for sure.
I thought I knew you before,
Barely a year, yet so long ago
Before I knew anymore
I thought I knew you...

You thought you knew me before,
But you had only scratched the surface.
What I do know is the cure,
I blossom, now. For evermore.

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from Since Life Stood Still, released March 1, 2024

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Lorna Brooks Edinburgh, UK

Lorna is being claimed as one of Scotland’s select few outstanding singer songwriters.
It is a rare thing indeed to find a voice that has character and is unmistakeable as the artist- Lorna is such a rarity. Her records have been described as ‘songs of beauty, distinction and subtlety shot through with fragility and delicacy’
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