[Acoustic guitar] I didn't fall for how you looked Standing underneath the light I fell for how the whole damn world Got softer through your eyes You'd notice things I'd walk right past A bird out on a wire Some crooked little roadside stand Some kid laughing by a fire And every now and then I'd see you disappear Not leave the room Just travel somewhere Younger than your years I started understanding There was someone underneath A little girl who learned too young That love could sometimes leave [Handclap] [Chorus] Come play with me Come waste the afternoon We'll run until the streetlights Tell us what we used to do You don't have to earn the laughter You don't have to watch the door Let your little heart come find mine We've both been here before Come play with me No keeping score Maybe love is two old children Finally Safe enough To play once more [Handclaps] [Kalimba motif] I know pain can make you clever Teach you every changing face Teach a child to read a silence Before anybody says Teach you how to leave things early How to sleep with one eye wide How to make a little fortress Where the tender things can hide Mine learned different kinds of hiding Different ways to disappear How to make himself useful So nobody would leave him here Funny how two grown-up people Can be talking late at night While somewhere underneath the words Two kids are asking Are we alright? [Chorus] Come play with me Come waste the afternoon We'll run until the streetlights Tell us what we used to do You don't have to earn the laughter I don't have to save the day Maybe yours can teach mine freedom Maybe mine can learn to stay Come play with me No keeping score Maybe love is two old children Finally Safe enough To play once more [Piano enters] [Handclaps grow] I wanna know the world you saw Before the world got mean Before somebody taught your heart What leaving people means I wanna meet the girl who laughed Before she learned restraint Not so I can rescue her She never needed Me for that I just wanna sit beside her Draw some pictures on the floor Let her beat me at some stupid game Then make me play once more And maybe you can meet that boy I carried all these years He got pretty good at growing up He's still A little weird [Small laugh] [Bridge] What if love isn't finding Somebody without scars? What if it's two people learning They don't have to hide where they are? You show me where it hurt you I'll show you where mine did Not so we can live there But so we finally know The kids And yours doesn't have to trust me Just because I say she can Mine doesn't need to fix her Or become some better man We can leave the gate wide open We can let them take their time Till one day they're in the backyard And your hand Is holding mine [Full band] [Handclaps] [Final Chorus] Come play with me Come waste the afternoon Let's run until we're breathless Underneath a reckless moon You don't have to earn my kindness I don't have to earn your stay Your little heart can choose its freedom Mine can choose to play Come play with me No keeping score Maybe love is two old children Finding something they lost before Not innocence Something better Knowing everything we know And still feeling safe enough To let Each other Close [Handclaps only] Come play with me [Kalimba answers] Come play with me [Soft harmony] Streetlights are coming on [Male vocal] Five more minutes [Handclap] [Soft laugh] Five more minutes [Acoustic hook] [End]
