I'm in love with a boy
Who makes me feel like fried chicken on a sunday
Like the Meat
That I don't eat
I'm an animal
I'm colossal
I'm the ballrooms in his eyes
I'm in love with a boy who makes me feel
Like pancakes on a weekday
We don't do that
In my family
We do grapefruit
cereal
oatmeal
We do not do orange juice
ever
I'm in love with a boy
Like honey in my tea
To take away the bitter
Take away the hunger
Amplify the wonder
And the way we grew together
All the tangles
All the thunder
All the things I never let you--
All the things I should have said to you
I'm in love with a boy
Who feels like sin in the morning
And sweet all the time
Like violence at night
And the freckles on his shoulders call me with words he'd never be able to find
Words that make me blind
The way he makes me feel is like the sun in my eyes
I'm in love with a boy like peaches in the summertime
And apples in the fall
He makes me feel like all the songs
I've never played
All the cobblers I should have baked
I'm my apron
I am taken
I'm the muffins that I baked him
I'm in love with a boy who makes me feel like candles on a birthday cake
Right after they hit the lights
And the sparkle
When the flames jump to the birthday girl's hair
And the scare
And the faces of the parents
All the horrified stares
I'm the 30 unburnt pieces, 45 guests
It's never enough
It's always too much
But I'm in love with this boy
He makes me feel
Like robbing a bank and making a clean get away
And worn out boots with no soles
From running hard and running fast
He makes me feel like guns
And a red hot sun
And the worst blisters of my life
Like fleeing in the night
and I'm your girl, right?
I'm in love with that boy like the first day he saw me
I'm in love with our mythology
and I want him to know
I'm still that girl
It's still that first day