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