Lyric

Cheap perfume in your old sedan

Windows stuck but we didn’t care

Your jacket on my shaking hands

Every street felt like it led us there

We were two kids racing a red light sky

Laughing at the rules as the world rolled by

Every wrong turn felt so right

So right

You promised me “always” in the dashboard glow

I said “whatever happens

Don’t let go”

Funny how forever can leave this slow

Burnt toast

Late bus

Your crooked grin

Mixtapes tangled on your bedroom floor

Homework open

Movie playing in

You said

“Stay five minutes

” I stayed more

We were passing notes under classroom glare

Hearts in the margins

Ink everywhere

You drew our initials like a quiet dare

You said

“Someday

We’ll leave this town behind

I’ll drive

You navigate

We’ll be just fine”

Strange how your someday slipped out of time

First small place

Paint on our bare hands

Take-out boxes on the window ledge

Bills and dishes

Dreams and bigger plans

You pacing circles on the balcony edge

We were grown now

Trying to play that part

Job calls

Long nights

You were drifting far

Talking ‘bout the weather

Skipping over hearts

You said

“It’s complicated

” staring at the floor

I heard every answer in your closing door

Wild how a quiet night can feel like war

Every age

Same song

New dress (Oh)

Different days

Same ache in my chest

Photographs fading

But the frames still stay

I keep us in sequence so you won’t slip away

Now it’s just me

Plants on the sill

Coffee cooling by the kitchen sink

Your old sweater on the window sill

I press play on memories

Then hit skip

Then think

We’re a slow dance left in an empty room

Footprints soft in the dust and gloom

I hum your name like a half-known tune

I say

“I’m okay

” to the midnight air

Some part of you lingers in every chair

Sweet in the distance

Sharp when I stare