******[verse 1] |
i walked through the door with you, the air was cold |
but something bout it felt like home somehow |
and i left my scarf there at your sisters house |
and youve still got it in your drawer, even now |
oh, your sweet disposition and my wide-eyed gaze |
were singing in the car, getting lost upstate |
autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place |
and i can picture it after all these days |
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[pre-chorus] |
and i know its long gone and |
that magics not here no more |
and i might be okay, but im not fine at all |
oh, oh, oh |
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[chorus] |
cause there we are again on that little town street |
you almost ran the red cause you were lookin over at me |
wind in my hair, i was there |
i remember it all too well |
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[verse 2] |
photo album on the counter, your cheeks were turning red |
you used to be a little kid with glasses in a twin-sized bed |
and your mothers telling stories bout you on the tee-ball team |
you taught me bout your past, thinking your future was me |
and you were tossing me the car keys, "fuck the patriarchy" |
key chain on the ground, we were always skipping town |
and i was thinking on the drive down, any time now |
hes gonna say its love, you never called it what it was |
til we were dead and gone and buried |
check the pulse and come back swearing its the same |
after three months in the grave |
and then you wondered where it went to as i reached for you |
but all i felt was shame and you held my lifeless frame |
[pre-chorus] |
and i know its long gone and |
there was nothing else i could do |
and i forget about you long enough |
to forget why i needed to |
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[chorus] |
cause there we are again in the middle of the night |
were dancing round the kitchen in the refrigerator light |
down the stairs, i was there |
i remember it all too well |
and there we are again when nobody had to know |
you kept me like a secret, but i kept you like an oath |
sacred prayer and wed swear |
to remember it all too well, yeah |
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[bridge] |
well, maybe we got lost in translation |
maybe i asked for too much |
but maybe this thing was a masterpiece |
til you tore it all up |
running scared, i was there |
i remember it all too well |
and you call me up again just to break me like a promise |
so casually cruel in the name of being honest |
im a crumpled up piece of paper lying here |
cause i remember it all, all, all |
[verse 3] |
they say alls well that ends well, but im in a new hell |
every time you double-cross my mind |
you said if we had been closer in age maybe it would have been fine |
and that made me want to die |
the idea you had of me, who was she? |
a never-needy, ever-lovely jewel whose shine reflects on you |
not weeping in a party bathroom |
some actress asking me what happened, you |
thats what happened, you |
you who charmed my dad with self-effacing jokes |
sipping coffee like youre on a late-night show |
but then he watched me watch the front door all night, willing you to come |
and he said, "its supposed to be fun turning twenty-one" |
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[verse 4] |
time wont fly, its like im paralyzed by it |
id like to be my old self again, but im still trying to find it |
after plaid shirt days and nights when you made me your own |
now you mail back my things and i walk home alone |
but you keep my old scarf from that very first week |
cause it reminds you of innocence and it smells like me |
you cant get rid of it |
cause you remember it all too well, yeah |
cause there we are again when i loved you so |
back before you lost the one real thing youve ever known |
it was rare, i was there |
i remember it all too well |
[chorus] |
wind in my hair, you were there |
you remember it all |
down the stairs, you were there |
you remember it all |
it was rare, i was there |
i remember it all too well |
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[verse 5] |
and i was never good at telling jokes, but the punch line goes |
"ill get older, but your lovers stay my age" |
from when your brooklyn broke my skin and bones |
im a soldier whos returning half her weight |
and did the twin flame bruise paint you blue? |
just between us, did the love affair maim you, too? |
cause in this citys barren cold |
i still remember the first fall of snow |
and how it glistened as it fell |
i remember it all too well |
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[outro] |
just between us, did the love affair maim you all too well? |
just between us, do you remember it all too well? |
just between us, i remember it (just between us), all too well |
wind in my hair, i was there, i was there |
down the stairs, i was there, i was there |
sacred prayer, i was there, i was there |
it was rare, you remember it all too well |
wind in my hair, i was there, i was there |
down the stairs, i was there, i was there |
sacred prayer, i was there, i was there |
it was rare, you remember it |
wind in my hair, i was there, i was there |
down the stairs, i was there, i was there |
sacred prayer, i was there, i was there |
it was rare, you remember it |
wind in my hair, i was there, i was there |
down the stairs, i was there, i was there |
sacred prayer, i was there, i was there |
it was rare, you remember it |
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[spoken outro] |
i love you guys so much |