Drawing a Tattoo

Drawing a tattoo

Hands like a bird

Came back to mine like you promised, you would

Crawled through the window

Dirt in your teeth

If you're lying down with me

I started talking

And I found your keys

And we spent the day in my childhood sheets

Said nobody out there would listen to me

'Til I started listening

You'll get taller, and smarter, and grow up without me

And I like to think that we're at the same speed

But there's a person who stays and a person who leaves

You said I gotta keep moving

Mom got a second job

And dad's still dead

I'm doing better, but I'm losing my hometown friends

You forgot everything that you said

But I didn't

And I kinda laugh 'cause I knew that it'd happen

But I can't help but wish that you didn't

Then you caught me talking like I'm so much bigger

You said I'm in the shoes that I left you in

Right before college, your dad's out of town

You fit a lightbulb inside of your mouth

You were talking so big

Then you were mumbling so proud

But the joke's that you can't get it out

White room blue curtains and two plastic bags

With the hardest that I've ever laughed

Think we found it 'for anyone did

Back when it was safe to be stupid

You call me to tell me you got a girl pregnant

You're keeping the baby, you're leaving Connecticut

I started giggling, you cried on the phone

Said you felt like before

So you learn to like the sound of a girl falling asleep

You sign up for things that you swore you'd never need

'Cause there's a person who stays and a person who leaves