Intro :
I 'll always t reasure the nai vety of the pa st we've sha red
O ur bodies grew much faster than our minds
But t ogeth er we got good at stopping tim e
M y teen angst d rove me to hur t myself and I ma de you wa tch
Oh the pa in I must have caused but by sta ying around u saved my life
W e were never meant to be lo vers just fello w late bloome rs
Who b losso med apar t wh o blo ssome d apart
W atching my paren ts made me look for something destructive
and the re you we re
With all the ch aracteristics of my m om fami liari ty of hom e
T he geographic gap let to forced adulthood and your ra ge exposed
I'm glad w e lef t things when we did
I doubt I'd s urviv e another bloody moa n
W e were never meant to be lo vers we ju st mirr ored each oth er's
s elf d estructivenes s se lf d estru ctiveness
T he spotlight b urned in the room when we were to gether
and we pla yed our pa rts
And I wore an i maginary TV scre en so you n ever got to touch my he art
W e were never meant to be lo vers our e gos fed of each oth er
And d ied o verweig ht a nd d ied o verweigh t
I thought I'd s een it all when you first walked in but you shu t me u p
A nd challen ged e very wrong perception I've had of myself
And you haven 't ever stop ped