simple things

[Verse 1]

I'm out of touch

While the blacktop's burning up

I'm passing signs

New Jersey on my mind

And there's a hole I can't fill

With small talk, is my name still

In the phone book upstairs?

I-I-I

[Chorus]

Well, it's long hair and town fairs

It's crazy that I'm not there

It's wide eyes and tan lines

It's never saying goodbye

It's the simple things we had

Now I'll never get them back

Wish I'd known just what I had

I-I-I

[Verse 2]

I talk too much

When the photo booth is up

And when we touch

And I feel like throwing up

Sometimes I can't sit still

Did your mom go sell the treadmill

Laying in the garage?

I-I-I

[Chorus]

It was long hair and town fairs

It's crazy that I'm not there

It's wide eyes and tan lines

It's never saying goodbye

It's the simple things we had

Now I'll never get them back

Wish I'd known just what I had

[Outro]

Yeah, ah, ah, ah

I still see it in my mind

Living out our nine to fives

No, I'm never going back

A New Jersey state of mind

There's a dream I always have

Where we scream until we laugh

And we laugh until we cry

Always staring at the sky

Used to think the end was near

How the hell'd I end up here?

And to those I love the most

Haven't thought of you in years

Saw your dad across the pond

Guess you finally proved him wrong

Like you knew it all along