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