Yesterday is behind
Yesterday is gone
Yesterday is history

Yesterday was weary
Yesterday was dark
Yesterday was heavy on my heart

Yesterday I lost my wallet
Yesterday I lost the spare keys to the house
Yesterday I lost my friend to suicide

Yesterday I learned about the world
Yesterday I learned I am definitely alone
Yesterday I learned even if I'm alone, I'm still loved

Today all I can do is think of yesterday
Today all I can do is think of yesterday
Today all I can manage to do is think of yesterday

Every morning when I awake
I fall into the memory of the way it felt
To open my groggy eyes and realize
I was laying in your arms

It was just one night together,
We drank, and sang, and drove drunk
Down the road to the bar
Even though I'm under aged

In the bar we got some drinks
Watched a wrestling match on the television
I learned that night watching two people fight
Is far more entertaining than one would think

Still I cannot hold on to that night
I cannot grasp for anything such as that
To ever in my lifetime occur again
Even though it happens every time I awake
I need to shed you like a snake

As a snake sheds it's skin, and lets new flesh in
I need to let the man who loves me for real do his job
And kick you off of the employee list
You have nothing but anger behind a fist
You won't even use it
You never do

So let me be protected by the one who holds me
Every night, besides the exception
He loves me, and that is enough for me,
Although it will never be enough for you

But I am shedding you, and your opinions
They aren't my own, and they shan't affect me any longer
My man deserves better
My man deserves love and I know better than most
How to give it, cause I never got it myself

I'm shedding you,
Like a snake,
so when I awake,
I only think of his smile,
and I'll let him stay the while.

I have watched you for months
When you get ready to be you
In a public setting
Less private than just us in your room

You walk out of the door
With the same flesh and bones
But a new mind put in place
Because you think the private one
Will be some sort of public disgrace

Societal influence takes a toll on you
So therefor, it takes a toll on the one who loves you
As I watch you before you leave,
I wait until you return to me
And you always do
Even if you're out all night

When you return, your muscles have grown
Your shoulders are tight, you are bloodshot
From all the stress and the weight you purposefully
Put on yourself, only to lift it off

After so much of watching you
I have grown accustomed to the process
That I so much want to join in myself
And now I am sore
Sore and in love with you,
Sore and in love with whoever you are.

Last night I walked alongside the trees,
the woods, frosted over with ice, snow
My boots are new and cheap,
letting in the cold and moisture also
Alone my promises the trees will keep
Although I wish instead the leaves would return
and fall upon me as your love once could
Washing over me, a rythmic pattern

Soothing was your love, my love
Soothing were the words you held
On the palms of your hands,
On the tip of your tongue,
But I was always so young
Too young for love, my love

Last night the wind was soft, gentle
Inside my heart has turned a fossil
Where the blood used to pump
Where my soul used to swell
Now all that is left is to dwell
But dwell I will not, not on you any longer
I have come so much further,
And become so much stronger
Still that fossil lingers on to know,
If things had happened differently,
Would our love have had the chance to grow?

Soothing was your love, my love,
Soothing were the hands you placed
Upon my sides, entwined with my own
Tangled in a mess of cotton sewn,
In a place no longer called your home,
To hold tight to one memory,
Is to ignore all of the rest,
And those that rest upon my chest,
I digress, I cannot dwell upon a mess.

Tonight I lay dormant, in a room, in a cave
It is not mine, it is borrowed, a nightlight shines for me
To breathe, to see, to lay alone inside this home
I cannot call it my own, for youth is all I truly have

Too young for love, my love,
Is what you always said
Little did you know, my love
This love will never cease
This love will never rest
Except inside the fossil
That replaced my heart
Inside my chest.