i was a backing track saving my green voices back disguising the obvious that i had no one to sing for i lived in a paper bin which i lived curled up and forgotten in with an unfinished lovers hymn tattooed on my forehead oh oh oh where were you had i known you then the outcome would have been better i got used to the treadmill love where no matter how fast you run you re stuck at the starting point only exhausted i was the anonymous author of songs i d not dared to share lacking the audience of a lover s ear oh oh oh oh oh oh where were you had i know you then the outcome would have been better you could have prevented this you could have prevented this you could have prevented this you could have prevented this you could have prevented this you could have prevented this you could have prevented this you could have prevented oh oh oh where were you had you known me then the outcome would have been better