Lyric

Summer camp, grade school night

Cabin creaks under yellow light

Mosquito smoke, burning low

I didn’t know what I didn’t know

She crossed a line, I stood still

Didn’t have words, but I felt the will

Can’t say what happened, can’t say why

But something in me learned to try

Camp is mostly life, they say

Start a fire, watch it fade

Make a wish, make a mess

Leave the smoke, forget the rest

Camp is mostly life, no map

Heavy bags, truth in scraps

But that firewood, that cheap wine smell

Sticks to you longer than farewell

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Middle school, stones piled wrong

Cooking rice that took too long

Someone laughed, “You look like two

Married folks with nothing to do”

Didn’t know love, didn’t know time

Didn’t know kids come line by line

Didn’t know how, didn’t know when

But I saw a future pretending then

Camp is mostly life, half-baked plans

Burnt-out pots, dirty hands

Learn to guard, learn to break

Learn too fast, learn too late

Camp is mostly life, long dark nights

Count the stars, miss the signs

By the time you think you’re right

Morning comes without a fight

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High school night, too damn long

Body felt like it didn’t belong

Big ideas, small scared skin

Am I a man or just bones and sin?

Asked the dark, it answered none

Just wind through trees and a loaded gun

Not to fire, just to feel

How quiet doubt can sound so real

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Camp is mostly life, edges gone

You get old, you get calm

Turn harmless, lose the flame

Call it peace, call it shame

Camp is mostly life, what you keep

What you lose, what you leave

All packed tight in one old sack

You don’t choose what you carry back

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Fire’s dead, tent’s all torn

Still smell smoke every dawn