"would you stay knowing one of us will have to change?"
"in the back of your car we took it too far, daddy hated you for it. didn't think it all through but i still had you and for that it all became worth it"
"did we change coming into our own skin? does it make you want to run again?"
"would you stay knowing one of us will have to change?"
"in the back of your car we took it too far, daddy hated you for it. didn't think it all through but i still had you and for that it all became worth it"
"did we change coming into our own skin? does it make you want to run again?"
this is the story of being afraid the people of your past will no longer recognize you in a new version of yourself and in turn, not want to be around you anymore.
i wrote it on the cusp of my twenties; still feeling like a teen, yet knowing the patterns i had won’t serve me anymore. is there a way to grow out of someone and also grow with them? (yes there is)
there’s a hidden story in this song in the first verse:
“in the back of your car,
well, we took it too far
and daddy hated you for it
didn’t think it all through
but i still had you,
for that it all became worth it”
when i was 15, my partner and i got swept away in conversation at a park near our high school (osprey park). SO swept away that the car battery died and we had to call our parents to come get us. they were convinced that we were doing something we shouldn’t be doing (fair). we got in trouble for it, but i always look back on it with gratitude. we could have made out in the parking lot, but we were still kids who wanted a friend more than anything
some people don’t like the winter because it’s boring. i like the winter because reminds me to pause. maybe they dont know the difference between complacency allowing yourself the grace of doing nothing