This is an ode to us Our elbows that brush When we're walking down the hall Our feet as we kicked each other At a football game Arms interlocked On a walk through the school yard And fingers reaching, grasping Sliding over arms and bodies and sides Finally intertwined In the street lit night
This is an ode to our memories Good and bad The conversations between classes When I told you I was suicidal When you told me you were abused When I realized that I loved you Making small talk on a swing set Knelt down in a library Snapping under electric bonds Thinking about you all night long
This is an ode to the things That stay between you and me I was the first one To ever use your name I waited for you at the stoplight When you refused to jaywalk Or run around the other way We looked across the road Through drifting car fumes In our small home town I remembered your arms Just a few hours ago They didn't feel like home But God, were they close
This is an ode to us To this teenage love To the rain that fell And cleansed the downtown buildings Washed out the streets Leaving everything out in the open All our secrets and mistakes Silly conversations and inside jokes And hurt, the things I'll never quite get over The times you didn't look at me And the times that you The times when it was just You And me Alone in our feelings Your blue eyes locked on mine Free