I Hope You Know (Best Friend)

Sometimes I miss college
Those old bar floors stucking against
Our ankle boots with zippers
The crowded girls' room
Of the bar your boyfriend tended
Upstairs on New Years' Eve

And sometimes I miss the Sunday morning drive-thru fast food
And sometimes I miss elbows pressed against our bathroom mirrors

You're still here every day, even when you're hours away
I hope you know
I hope you know

Sometimes I think of
The blue old couch our old stoned friends
Would lose themselves in
The busted out railing
On our back porch
We'd let the drunks climb in

And sometimes I miss falling down on downtown benches at 4am
And sometimes I miss the smokey basement of the bar we'd pass out at

You're still here every day, even when you're hours away
I hope you know
I hope you know

The one best friend without shared blood, but family stil the same
You had my back, my booze, my hand, on every drunken night
In that crowd, I had your side, something like a family
I hope you know
I Hope you know
I always miss you
I hope you know
I hope you know
I still miss you <3

Run On

I broke your keychain
While you're pickin' on guitar strings
On the one possession
That possesses my dreams
Just like an old mountain song
You bring me back in waves
Lord knows we won't move on
Just forward in this Georgia state

Who won the game?
Who broke whose heart?
These small town ties
Just fray apart

So run with me
Make this world our own
Burn those high school love letters
Let's run on
So run with me
Make our own life our home
Burn the teenage mixtape
Let's run on

She broke your heart
And I don't give a damn
It's just an ex
On a map burnin' in the sand
Your arms bend around me
So I can't help but fall again
Play me sad indie songs
I'll write words to them

Who won the game?
Who broke whose heart?
These small town ties
Just fray apart

So run with me
Make this world our own
Burn those high school love letters
Let's run on
So run with me
Make our own life our home
Burn the teenage mixtape
Let's run on

These small town ties
Just fray apart
These small town ties
Just fray apart

Sing

Keep pushing it out
Keep forcing the words
Just trying to make myself sing
Just pushing it out
Just forcing the verbs
The adjectives to make me bring
This life to noise
This world to song
Anything to make me breathe
Keep pushing it out
Keep forcing the words
To make me sing

He strums a guitar
He plays me a song
He made the words up
In an old notebook
I stole his pen
Wrote myself for him
Tried to make a sound
But it doesn't speak

So when does this moment become something permanant?
How do I make your eyes, your face, something they can understand?

Keep pushing it out
Keep forcing the words
Just trying to make myself sing
Just pushing it out
Just forcing the verbs
The adjectives to make me bring
This life to noise
This world to song
Anything to make me breathe
Keep pushing it out
Keep forcing the words
To make me sing

I broke his keychain
But he keeps playing
He stops to ask me
"Is this too sad?"
His mom drinks her wine
Taps her foot to the time
Loves the way his voice
Bends those strings

And I'm the lucky one who gets to love him 'til I die
Write a sad song for me, make this moment a crime

Keep pushing it out
Keep forcing the words
Just trying to make myself sing
Just pushing it out
Just forcing the verbs
The adjectives to make me bring
This life to noise
This world to song
Anything to make me breathe
Keep pushing it out
Keep forcing the words
To make me sing

Ribbon as a Ring

You tied a ribbon on my finger
Made me all yours
The red satin wrapped around me
Lets me know where I belong
I might be a mess some days
In a hoodie just too big
But you love me anyways
With a ribbon as a ring

I hid under your covers and they fall like rain on me
You're blowing air like tents and I just can't see
My life by anyone else's side, yes, you're all mine & I'll be
Your only girl, I'll tell the world, this fits perfectly

You tied a ribbon on my finger
Made me all yours
The red satin wrapped around me
Lets me know where I belong
I might be a mess some days
In a hoodie just too big
But you love me anyways
With a ribbon as a ring

Move Me Again

I suppose I might write too fast
Take a second, jot some words
Let the ink take the past
Sometimes time moves too slow
Then I wake up and it's November
Where'd those college times go?

Can't memories just shut their mouths
Can't broken lines just mend again
Tell me where you are in your mind
Just one more time
Be my best friend
He'll move me on again

I suppose sometimes we break hearts
But he's moved on and I will too
In this car that just won't start
Felt summer move under my feet
Just like sands of time, passing through
Parked hiding on your street

Can't the present be loved for what it is
Can't our broken hearts just mend again
Tell me where you are in your mind
Just one more time
Be my best friend
And we'll move me again

And dark whiskey flows under autumn moons
And cold glasses shake our hands
Just hold me tight, here comes this adult life

Can't the present just be loved for what it is
Can't our broken hearts just mend again
Tell me where you are in my mind
Just one more time
Be my best friend
And you'll move me again

Abandon

In this darkness
Of our farthest moment
I can't breathe
Past these broken hearts
Try to heal me
Try to hold me if you can
Say you need me
Say this doesn't have to end

And when you have no hope in you
You're losing faith in us
And when you say we're almost through
I'm giving up on love
And when your promises all break
You better find a way
This sinking ship, can it be saved?
You're abandoning me

It's cold tonight
Winters moving in
We're broken hands to shake
Books piled in the den
A fire running wild
Change this course of fate
A sad old country song
Whining out of this old tape

And when you have no hope in you
You're losing faith in us
And when you say we're almost through
I'm giving up on love
And when your promises all break
You better find a way
This sinking ship, can it be saved?
You're abandoning me

Please don't leave me

The right thing's always the hardest
Find yourself a way
You need to move on
Move on!
Make a stand for you & me

I fell asleep
On your shoulder last night
I guess I don't need you
But I want you to make it alright

And when you have no hope in you
You're losing faith in us
And when you say we're almost through
I'm giving up on love
And when your promises all break
You better find a way
This sinking ship, can it be saved?
You're abandoning me