I just got the cash
I never knew you
Not the man they sing about
You were always just a shadow
On the edge of every crowd
They tell me I should feel the loss
Like I’m supposed to cry on cue
But I can’t miss what I never had
’Cause I never knew you
A sharp intakeof breath ripples through the chapel.Callum’s chest tightens.
Other children had their daddies
Hands to catch them when they fell
I learned early not to wait
Not to ask.Turns out absence has a way
Of making you hate what you never had
Her voice doesn’t crack.
I never knew you
Not your hands, not your truth
I never knew your promises
Or which ones you’d refuse
They say blood is everything
Like it makes us somehow true
But all it ever gave me
Was a man I never knew
Isla’s handsstrike the keys again, harder now.
They say you would’ve loved me
If you’d stayed a little while
Guess the encore mattered more than I
A womanin the front row begins to cry openly.Isla doesn’t look up.
So don’t tell me what you meant to be
