A Different Kind of Pain

Verse

I saw your face on a screen one night

Blue lights flashing, frozen in time

A name I’d heard in passing halls

Now written under headlines and walls

We shared the same streets, the same small town

Same Friday lights when the sun went down

Parallel lives that never crossed

Still somehow it feels like something’s lost

Pre-chorus

It’s strange how silence can feel so loud

When the world keeps spinning around

Chorus

And I didn’t even know

This is a different kind of pain

I didn’t even know you

But I know your name

You went to the same school as me

Lived in the same city

And I didn’t even know you

But I saw you on your last day

And that’s a different kind of pain

Verse

I pass the corner where it all went wrong

Cars still drive like nothing’s changed at all

Someone laughs, the radio plays

Life keeps moving the same old way

Your picture’s framed in flowers and light

Strangers crying for you tonight

We don’t know why it hits so deep

But some losses don’t need history

Pre-chorus

It’s not your voice that I can’t forget

It’s knowing we never met

Chorus

And I didn’t even know

This is a different kind of pain

I didn’t even know you

But I know your name

You went to the same school as me

Lived in the same city

And I didn’t even know you

But I saw you on your last day

And that’s a different kind of pain

Bridge

We think we’ve got so much time

Until it’s gone in the blink of a light

If I’d known that day would be your last

I would’ve looked twice when you passed

Chorus

And I didn’t even know

This is a different kind of pain

I didn’t even know you

But I know your name

We breathed the same air, the same days

Passed each other a thousand ways

And I didn’t even know you

But I saw you on your last day

And that’s a different kind of pain