In "the believer," Nico Santos planned a Rome trip for a love that was already fading, missing the warning in a last phone call. The devotion was religious in its intensity, treating a partner as gospel while the other had already checked out by September. Watching them leave in the rain, the promises turn out to be lies, and the shock is not just heartbreak but the realization that the whole relationship was built on a version of them that never existed.
the believer Lyrics by Nico Santos
I bought two tickets to your favourite city
Rome in the summer ’cause you’re in love with Da Vinci
Only last week, you called to say that you miss me
Right there and then, I guess that it should’ve hit me
I never saw it from that side of the story
You looked in my eyes and told me, “Baby, don’t worry.”
If I could go back in time, I would’ve asked you to warn me
I would’ve cut the rope before it got stormy
I couldn’t reach you
You were the gospel
And I’m the believer
And, now, I’m standing in the rain as I watch you leave
Walking my whole life out the door
If this is what you wanted for you and me
Then I don’t think I knew you at all
All the promises were just lies to me
But, baby, I believed them all
If this is what you wanted for you and me
Then I don’t think I knew you at all
At all, at all, at all, at all
Now, I’m the believer
At all, at all, at all, at all
Now, I’m the believer
One look in your eyes. I knew that I wanted “forever”
But inside of mine you couldn’t see past September
The tiniest things you didn’t even remember
You changed your mind like clouds are changing the weather
I couldn’t reach you
You were the gospel
And I’m the believer
And, now, I’m standing in the rain as I watch you leave
Walking my whole life out the door
If this is what you wanted for you and me
Then I don’t think I knew you at all
All the promises were just lies to me
But, baby, I believed them all
If this is what you wanted for you and me
Then I don’t think I knew you at all
At all, at all, at all, at all
Now, I’m the believer
At all, at all, at all, at all
Now, I’m the believer
At all, at all, at all, at all
Now, I’m the believer
At all, at all, at all, at all
I couldn’t reach you
You were the gospel
And I’m the believer
