You were seventeen and absolutely certain that love should have a timetable and I was standing by the vending machine trying to look emotionally unavailable You bought a lemonade I bought the wrong one and somehow this became important for the next three years Why did every silence mean somebody was leaving? Why did every Tuesday feel like something worth believing? Why was love so difficult when we were young? We had two hearts and no idea what either one had done We could survive algebra bad hair and public transportation but one unanswered phone call could end an entire civilisation I remember waiting outside your house for forty-seven ages which according to my watch was nine minutes You came downstairs wearing my jacket though technically it was your jacket because you had kept it since November and apparently possession had become the law Why could one look across a room destroy a whole weekend? Why did saying "I'm fine" mean exactly the opposite again? Why was love so difficult when we were young? We had two hearts and no idea what either one had done We could survive chemistry cheap cider and your brother's Ford Fiesta but hearing "maybe we should talk" was basically anaesthesia And now I know nobody knew anything not you not me not Erik especially not Erik We were children wearing adult-sized feelings dragging them around town like suitcases without wheels Why was love so difficult when we were young? We had two hearts and thought that love meant knowing what they'd done We survived the rain the exams the terrible photographs and all those nights we thought that nobody had ever hurt like us And maybe nobody had because nobody else was exactly seventeen exactly there with you and me I still don't know why you kept my jacket You said it wasn't mine You were probably right God, I loved you @ 2026 ⊎Ƥм11₭⩎ФᏩΛЯ | @UPM11knogar Lyrics: © 2023 UPM11knogar. Music and Arrangement: © 2026 UPM11knogar.
