Lyric

I keep my shoes by the door

Like I’m ready to leave at any time

I fold my dreams into drawers

They’ve faded soft like lullabies

They say the world is wide and kind

But I’ve only seen it from the side

I light a candle, not for hope—

Just for silence when I cry

No, I won’t grow old

Won’t wear the years like winter coats

I’ll leave behind a younger ghost

A name no one really knows

And when the stars forget to shine

Don’t look for me—I’ll be just fine

Some lives were never meant to hold

And I won’t grow old

The clocks all skip around my hands

Like time can’t stand to look at me

And love, it lands then slips like sand—

It never really chose to stay

I write my name in fogged-up glass

Watch it vanish just as fast

It’s not a tragedy, you know

To burn too bright and fade too slow

No, I won’t grow old

Won’t trade my fire for safe and cold

Let memory be my only home

And flowers bloom where I let go

If morning comes and I’m not there

Just breathe me in the morning air

Some hearts were never built to hold

And I won’t grow old

So don’t cry for me in years to come

I lived too fast, but I felt it all

And maybe that’s enough, you know—

To die young, but not alone