Lyrics
[verse]
Word gets around before you tell me
Someone always talks before you do
Neighbor's cousin saw you at the station
Standing close to someone who wasn't me or you
[verse]
I've been putting all the pieces together
Every rumor, every sideways glance
Didn't want to trust the whispers around me
Didn't want to believe it was true, given the chance
[chorus]
But the word's been spreading down the block now
Word's been traveling street to street
Everybody knows before I do, baby
That our love's about to meet defeat
[verse]
Tell me it's a lie before it's too late
Tell me that the talkers got it wrong
Cause I built my whole world up around you
And I can't stand to hear the rumor for too long
[chorus]
But the word's been spreading down the block now
Word's been traveling street to street
Everybody knows before I do, baby
That our love's about to meet defeat
[bridge]
Whispers, whispers, traveling faster
Than the truth could ever run
I'm the last to know the ending
Of a story we'd already begun
[chorus]
But the word's been spreading down the block now
Word's been traveling street to street
Everybody knows before I do, baby
That our love's about to meet defeat
