Jade

Whispered your name behind the kitchen island

In your old house I heard was haunted

Hid from your big brother’s party

My mom had made my sister bring me

I just thought you were so cool

We talked one time in after school

But there I was with a friendship bracelet

And I believed it was made of diamonds

But friendships fade around fifteen

Like emerald fades to jaded green

Though I had always thought I’d see

Us cry at each other’s weddings

We used to kick and fight and scream

Then hide to never have to leave

But now we text just once a year

With hollow plans to get coffee

And maybe it’s for the best

That we both went in different paths

If there’s one thing that I’ve learned from us

It’s friendship isn’t effortless

Only twelve when you smoked out a bottle

Cause I was giving good peer pressure

One hit and we were paranoid

Poured red eye drops in our still pure eyes

We just thought we were so cool

Rolling our shorts and failing school

But I feel guilty until this day

That you were expelled and I went free

Then our friendship faded at fifteen

Like emerald fades to jaded green

And ever since your parents split

You’ve had to help your mom pay rent

So you put the whole school thing on hold

And worked with golden retrievers

Then on the side you sell some drinks

You’re not old enough yet to hold

Tell me it’s for the best

Feels like I caused and never stayed to clean up the mess

If there’s one thing that I’ve learned from us

It’s that friendship isn’t effortless

Remember September

When you bled on the bottle

That you broke by my pool

And you were suddenly sober

Put on your best to the rest

But saved your tears for the shower

Always dreamed of being

A Victoria Secret angel

But those cigarette stains

And girlhood days

They fade

All those cigarette stains

And girlhood days

They fade

Yeah, all those cigarette stains

And growing pains

Will fade

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