Drawing a Tattoo

[Verse 1]

Drawing a tattoo, hands like a bird

Came back to mine like you promised you would

Crawled through the window

Dirt in your teeth

You're lying down with me

[Verse 2]

I started talking and I found your keys

And we spent the day in my childhood sheets

Said nobody out there would listen to me

'Til I started listening:

[Chorus]

"You'll get taller and smarter and grow up without me

And I like to think that we're at the same speed

But there's a person who stays and a person who leaves"

You said I gotta keep moving

[Verse 3]

Mom got a second job and Dad's still dead

I'm doing better, but I'm losing my hometown friends

You forgot evеrything that you said

But I didn't

[Chorus]

And I kinda laugh 'cause I knew that it'd happen

But I can't hеlp but wish that you didn't

When you caught me talking like I'm so much bigger

You said I'm in the shoes that I left you in

[Verse 4]

Right before college, your dad's out of town

You fit a lightbulb inside of your mouth

You were talking so big, then you were mumbling so proud

But the joke's that you can't get it out

[Chorus]

White room, blue curtains, and two plastic bags

You were the hardest that I've ever laughed

I think we found it 'fore anyone did

Back when it was safe to be stupid

[Outro]

You call me to tell me you got a girl pregnant

You're keeping the baby, you're leaving Connecticut

I started giggling, you cried on the phone

Said you felt like before

So you learn to like the sound of a girl falling asleep

And you sign up for things that you swore you'd never need

'Cause there's a person who stays and a person who leaves

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