SILLY YOU (THE PHONE REMEMBERS) [Intro] Silly you Not silly me Let me jog your memory Sometimes phones hold more Than memories [Verse 1] Sometimes you find something Think nobody has a clue Use what somebody wrote Then go and gain yourself some views Change a word Move a line Tell yourself that makes it new But the date is in the details And the details point to you I tell the truth Somehow it frightens you I never said your name So why it feel like I described you? If the shoe fits Put it on and tie it too You can hide behind the crowd But every shadow has a shape Say that big-boy shit Directly to my face Not when I’m gone Whispering from corners like you brave Got a few who built with me To learn what they could take Then they pulled at my foundation Like the building wouldn’t shake Sad but true I saw the cracks and let them show You were planning my collapse I was becoming world-renowned [Pre-Chorus] Delete it Retrieve it The record still exists You can clear the whole conversation But the cloud remembers it [Chorus] Silly you Not silly me Let me jog your memory That little phone holds more Than pictures and memories Silly you Thought the truth would disappear But the time, the date, the words Are still exactly sitting there Silly you You got views, but what’s the fee? You may fool the whole room You will never fool me [Verse 2] Gave away too many secrets Never got an apology No one commenting or liking I didn’t care who followed me Kept working Kept writing Kept becoming who I am While they measured my importance By reactions from the crowd Started blocking my empathy Had to put the giving down Everybody loves an open hand Until you close it around They got comfortable receiving Then got angry at the drought Funny how they call you different When you finally count yourself I was pouring from a vessel They were drilling through the base Calling selfish what was sacred When I moved it out of reach I don’t owe another person Every piece that makes me deep Some things grow when they are guarded Some things die when they are cheap [Chorus] Silly you Not silly me Let me jog your memory That little phone holds more Than pictures and memories Silly you Thought the truth would disappear But the time, the date, the words Are still exactly sitting there Silly you You got views, but what’s the fee? You may fool the whole room You will never fool me [Verse 3] Some women salty ’Cause I’m not choosing Never knowing who I am Got enough who really love me I don’t need the whole world, ma’am Plus I’m abstaining I’m building I’m not thirsty for your drink If you tell me no A billion more exist Best believe That don’t mean I need the billion That means I don’t beg to stay I can honor your decision Then continue on my way You don’t like it? Someone else will That’s the balance of the game I won’t bargain with my value Just to make you say my name Don’t act brand new Then leave me with the bill You enjoyed me when I gave Now respect me when I will not You were loving my attention Not the person it came from Now the faucet isn’t running And you wonder what you’ve done [Bridge] I’m not bitter I got better There’s a difference in the two One keeps staring at the damage One builds something from the ruins I didn’t lose my empathy I gave it walls and gates Love without discernment Leaves the garden open late I still care I just learned Not every hand deserves the key You can call the boundary cold It still feels like peace to me [Final Verse] You found pages from my past Thought the past forgot the pen Now the writer has returned And the ink is flowing again You can borrow an idea You cannot become the source You can imitate the stride You cannot recreate the force I wrote when nobody listened Built when nobody believed Now the same ones acting distant Want a branch from off the tree No resentment Just remembrance No revenge inside of me But I document the lesson Nothing wasted, nothing free Every secret that I gave Every time I overreached Every person that I carried Taught me boundaries are peace Now I’m building with intention Every word belongs to me And the phone you thought was silent Kept the perfect memory [Final Chorus] Silly you Not silly me Let me jog your memory That little phone holds more Than pictures and memories Silly you Thought the truth would disappear But the time, the date, the words Are still exactly sitting there Silly you You got views, but what’s the fee? You may fool the whole room You will never fool me [Outro] Delete it Retrieve it The record still exists Silly you The phone remembers it
