Steve I Always Knew

{{Infobox song | Name = Steve I Always Knew | Cover = ME-LLUSA.jpg | Caption = The Invisible Man cover | Artist = Mark Eitzel | Album = [[The Invisible Man] | Released = 2001 | Format = CD | Length = | Label = Matador Records | Writer = Mark Eitzel | Producer = Mark Eitzel | Tracks =

1. "Have No Words"
2. "The Big House"
3. "Dream In Your Heart"
4. "Lost My Humor"
5. "How Do You Face Yourself In Sleep"
6. "Lost And Lonely"
7. "Pay It Back"
8. "Leave Her Alone"
9. "Steve I Always Knew"
10. "Nice Nice Nice"
11. "Your Glass Jaw"
12. "What Good Is Love"
13. "Sun Smog Seahorse"

}}

"Steve I Always Knew" is the 7th song on Mark Eitzel's 4th album, 1997’s tour-only CD Lover's Leap USA.

Lyrics

The Invisible Man version

You can boil the night down into a thin white line
Ringing doorbells and waiting next to a pay phone
Which means I guess that we're gonna sleep together
And like the morning, you disappear

The sunrise is a rainbow made out of grey blood veins
You said in my life I was too lucky
So tell me am I supposed to feel guilty or something
When you're just another glow in the dark skeleton talking

Steve I always knew you wanted me
But you know I had too much to lose
You said the only way through fear is to give in
And you were right
Fear ain't much more than nothing

You put all your cash up the noses of the boys at the Leland hotel
You said if you don't live now there's no chance for later
I guess in bed I was kind of a sweet nothing
For your money you could have done much better

Steve I always knew you wanted me
But you know I had too much to lose
You said the only way through fear is to give in
And you were right
Fear ain't much more than nothing
But then I got your eyes and in them you were nothing

You moved to New York to clean up and came back married to a cop
When I saw you on the street I could tell you didn't want to stop
You said those who haven't seen the death of love don't know what to believe in
And far too early you saw life had no meaning
You were far too young to think that was the truth
You were far too young to live with the truth

Steve I always knew you wanted me
But you know I had too much to lose
You said the only way through fear is to give in
And you were right
Fear ain't much more than nothing
You were right
But then I got your eyes and in them you were nothing

Also appears on

• Lover's Leap USA Early version
• Live At WFMU Live acoustic version