Aren’t you tired

I know I am

Do you still want me here

In the space between you and your hands

We shrank the summer down

To 24 miles

I can still hear the sound

Of you laughing all the way down

We built a tower

Out of water and sand

Make it taller than both of us

And we tear it apart with our hands

Look at us, carefree

As we destroy what we made

I love you carefully

And I act like I’m dumb for my age

And I know we’re older

But she still makes you cry

And just because she told you so

It doesn’t mean that she’s right

And it still gets ugly

And you still bite your tongue

But you still have more fight in you

Than you ever really did when you were young

Give it up for plain Jane

There isn’t really much to say

She’s faster than a bullet train

And what you tell her she will take to her grave

“Can you see the laugh lines?”

She holds her face in the mirror

She says it like nothings wrong

But I can hear her disappointment from here

You think you look older

I think you look alive

You were right before when you told me

Living takes more than to just survive

What’s a word for lonely

That doesn’t mean alone

And what’s that thing you told me

Something I would understand when I was grown

I don’t know what I heard

Or what it takes to forgive

You were mad at the whole world

You were angry it didn’t stop when you did

I am building something else

It’s not something I will tear down

I will make it myself

And I’m too proud to break that promise

I’d do anything but ask for your help