Everyone Knows

The verse riff was originally composed on keyboard, so I still hear it in the background when this song is played. This song is now a few years old and appropriately full of longing and confusion. The time signature shift is prominent. The verse is in 5/4 time, an homage a jazz standard by the name of "Take Five", and then the chorus abruptly switches to 4/4. I have long been influenced by jazz, but it usually crops up in my music more subtly.


I don't know where you go
I don't know where you stay
I wish that I never tried
Half as hard to explain

Every time I hope to hold
An answer to a question bold
I tried so hard to make it so
And thus undo the tale I told

I live inside my head
My cares are for my fears
I haven't yet known you
I rarely make mistakes

Every time I hope to hold
An answer to a question bold
I tried so hard to make it so
And thus undo the tale I told

Every time I hope to hold
An answer to a question bold
I tried so hard to make it so
And thus undo the tale I told

I lay it on thick
I only have one speed
I rarely get thrown off
I don't desire your concern

Every time I hope to hold
An answer to a question bold
I tried so hard to make it so
And thus undo the tale I told

Every time I hope to hold
An answer to a question bold
I tried so hard to make it so
And thus undo the tale I told