We Were Young

Verse 1

There's a dead moth in my windowsill And a birthday card

I never filled

My old blue jeans don't fit the same

But the holes are still in all the right places

We used to jump the fences after dark Steal cheap wine and call it art

Now the playground's got a brand-new gate

And we're all too tired to stay out late

Pre-Chorus

Mama says I'm growing up I think I'm just growing out

Of the little things I used to love

And the things I talked about

Chorus

We were young for a minute

Had the whole world in our hands

Now there's dust inside our pockets

And we're making other plans

All our flowers grew crooked All our summers went too fast

We were beautiful disasters

That were never built to last

And I don't wanna get older

But I'm doing it anyway

There's a little less of me

Every ordinary day

Verse 2

Found a cigarette behind my bed

From a night I barely can remember

We wrote our names beneath the bridge Now the river's running brown in September

My best friend moved to somewhere cold

Says he's got a decent job and a car

He sends me pictures of his living room Like he hasn't noticed how far

We used to swear we'd never change With our cheap tattoos and stolen rings Now he cuts his hair every two weeks And I don't call him in the spring

Pre-Chorus

Daddy says the years go quick Like he's telling me a joke

But his hands have gotten thinner

And his cigarettes won't smoke

Chorus

We were young for a minute

Had the whole world in our hands

Now there's dust inside our pockets

And we're making other plans

All our flowers grew crooked

All our summers went too fast

We were beautiful disasters

That were never built to last

And I don't wanna get older

But I'm doing it anyway

There's a little less of me

Every ordinary day

Bridge

I think my knees can hear the weather

I think my eyes are getting worse

I think the girl I was at seventeen

Would hate the way I write these words

She'd say, "You promised we'd be famous You promised we'd get out of here"

I'd say, "I know, I know,

I'm sorry I just blinked and lost a year"