I Still Think About Who I Was Last Summer

Well, I've changed

Except my heart still beats too fast

And my lungs still collapse

And my legs still shake

I once thought love was real

When we sat atop that hill and looked at cars below

We used to grow

You kissed me on the forehead

And told me that you'd never let go

You told me that you'd love me until the end

Which begs the question: Are we now dead?

Are we now dead?

The person I thought I knew must be

The person I once trusted until my bones rusted over

In the snow

We used to grow

Like the tallest tree in my backyard, I used to know

Well, happiness and joy and bliss

How it all disappeared so quick

Well, happiness and joy and bliss

How it all disappeared so quick

So here's to life and here's to love

I've said it before, that I fade with the setting sun

So here's to life and here's to love

I've said it before, that I fade away with the setting sun

My ears are still ringing from the sound of your broken heart

Beating faster than thought, caught in your stare, so encompassing

All resolve is lost as words fall from your lips

My trembling fingertips held out in question

So shake hands with regret, set to slip away

Your eyes crossing, rivers flowing under pale feet

As the moments count down to flames

Meet and greet death, he wears a cloak of your hopes and dreams

Quenched like the raging fire they were once

You're the breath he never found, you are the closed eyes peacefully resting while those around you, torn to pieces

You're the smoke I'd pull to escape from thought of you

No touch, no shadow, cast into mind

Your hand fervidly held at your side as memories of you flow through mine, an empty space

More lonesome for what it has lost

You're the sunset smile thundering out of a careless moment

You're the tightly closed fingers holding in a breath

If you would stay here with me, one more minute

I would steal the world