"But I stay when it's hard, or it's wrong, or we're making mistakes"
"All my mornings are Mondays stuck in an endless February"
"Don't want money, just someone who wants my company"
"When did all our lessons start to look like weapons pointed at my deepest hurt?"
"Remind me how it used to be, pictures in frames of kisses on cheeks"
"I don't know why all the trees change in the fall"
"I just learned these people only raise you to cage you"
"I was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere"
"Your words are still just ringing in my head, ringing in my head"
"What if he's written 'mine' on my upper thigh only in my mind?"
"You won't believe half the things I see inside my head"
"Ain't no way I'm gonna screw up now that I know what's at stake"
"He seems fine most of the time, forcing smiles and neverminds"
"All of this silence and patience, pining in anticipation"
"I'm not trying to exaggerate, but I think I might die if I made it"
"Wise men once read fake news, and they believed it"
"I spy with my little tired eye, tiny as a firefly a pebble that we picked up last July"
"I hear it in your voice, you're smoking with your boys"
"You're not Dylan Thomas, I'm not Patti Smith"
"Luck of the draw only draws the unlucky"
"What if your eyes looked up and met mine one more time"
"I can see you starin', honey, like he's just your understudy"
"Hey you, what if I told you we're cool?"
"We were blind to unforeseen circumstances"
"He will try to take away my pain, and he just might make me smile"
"I'd say the 1830s but without all the racists and getting married off for the highest bid"
"Buried down deep and out of your reach, the secret we all vowed to keep it, from you"
"Then she dated boys who were her own age with dart boards on the backs of their doors"
"The dopamine races through his brain on a six-lane Texas highway"
"And the tennis court was covered up with some tent-like thing"
"His hands are in my hair, his clothes are in my room"
"What if I told you none of it was accidental and the first night that you saw me, nothing was gonna stop me?"
"When you are young, they assume you know nothin'"
"Now I want to sell my house and set fire to all my clothes"
"Now the sun burns my heart and the sand hurts my feelings"
"I'm watching American Pie with you on a Saturday night"
"But no one notices until it's too late to do anything"
"The lights refract sequined stars off her silhouette every night"
"When the butterflies turned to dust that covered my whole room"
"So I leap from the gallows and I levitate down your street"