American Dream Trajectory

Between sips you say

there’s nothing heroic about

growing up like you did

surviving somehow

I held you at 17

Baby, you haven’t changed a bit

Still wearing a face of steel

Still feeling all of it

When I think of your dad

Yeah it chokes me up

And I wasn’t the one going through all of that stuff

Are you there right now?

That sixty degree summer you spend out west

Flipped a car, broke a heart resurrected a friend

Are you there right now?

You called it “February whiplash“

when the power goes out

It don’t come back

your eyes adjust to living in the dark

Your eyes give up on seeing who you are

Head strong anxious and healing slow

Repaying your debts

clawing back control

you’d like to love somebody to a fault

You’d like to feel like you deserve it all

When I think of us young yeah, it makes me sick

I wake up wishing that we were together when were kids

Are you there right now?

The fatal flaws of the people that you had needed to breathe

Destroying your American Dream trajectory

Are you there right now?

Ohh we don’t gotta talk about before

Oh we don’t gotta talk about before

Oh we don’t gotta talk about before

Oh we don’t gotta talk about before

But we’ll have to stop our running while we’re stunted and afraid

taking stock of what we lost there’s so much life on the table

Are you there?

The fatal flaws of the people that we don’t gotta be

Destroying your American Dream trajectory

Are you there right now?