What If

Small town where no one’s stranger
But I’m the one brand new
Met all of my neighbors
But just remember you
All that with the phone in your left hand
Looked me up and down and then you said
“Who are you?”

In the back of the car, we left the party when you took me by the hand
In front of the prom king like you hardly knew my name or who I am
Leaving me solo, Marco Polo, till you don’t know where to go
Running in circles till it hurts ‘cause I know

I just can’t read you
You’re something special
But damn you’re stressful
‘Cause you keep sending sign after sign, but I can’t read you
You hit my mentions
Then leave me guessing
Yeah you keep sending sign after sign oh yeah

You begged me to go dancing
Said “don’t wait just meet me there”
And I waited out in line
Oh, I probably should’ve stayed away
But I cave when you say “one more time”

In the back of the car, we left the party when you took me by the hand
In front of the prom king like you hardly knew my name or who I am
Leaving me solo, Marco Polo, till you don’t know where to go
Running in circles till it hurts ‘cause I know

I just can’t read you
You’re something special
But damn you’re stressful
‘Cause you keep sending sign after sign, but I can’t read you
You hit my mentions
Then leave me guessing
Yeah you keep sending sign after sign oh yeah

All out of attention
Told me that we had a connection
If this is how you show your affection, why?
All out of intention
Tell me if you have a direction
I can’t read your mind

I just can’t read you
You’re something special
But damn you’re stressful
‘Cause you keep sending sign after sign

But I can’t read you
You’re something special
But damn you’re stressful
‘Cause you keep sending sign after sign, but I can’t read you
You hit my mentions
Then leave me guessing
Yeah you keep sending sign after sign oh yeah

You begged me to go dancing
Said “don’t wait just meet me there”
And I waited out in line
Oh, I probably should’ve stayed away
But I cave when you say “one more time”

Wide awake smiling still in my bed
Running scenes of last night through my head
Found myself in your home, said hello, put my name in your phone
Lost my friends

Our first date walked to Pier 66
My lips, your lips, my heart beating right out my chest
When I held you I had something that I knew I need so bad
Yeah I need
Your love so bad

Oh, oh
Your love so bad
Oh, oh
Your love so bad
Oh, oh, oh
Yeah I need your love so bad

Economy, flew to deep Mexico
For a week you and me all alone
Till forever I had something that I knew I need so bad
Yeah I need
Your love so bad

Oh, oh
Your love so bad
Oh, oh
Your love so bad
Oh, oh, oh
Yeah I need your love so bad

Getting late, getting late, getting late
Should I take you home?
But you said “oh babe we got places to go”
By the way, by the way that you’re holding me close
I think that you know I need you so
Oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh
Your love so bad
Oh, oh
Your love so bad
Oh, oh, oh
Yeah I need your love so bad
Oh, oh
Your love so bad
Oh, oh
Your love so bad
Oh, oh, oh
Yeah I need your love so bad

7:35 at night
Road Trip down to the coast
Stereo on high, a vibe
In your bleached denim shorts

A couple days in San Mateo
Sunscreen and nowhere else to be
In that faded Winnebago
Making hella memories

Wish that we could go back
More than just a throwback
Baby only you and me
Chasing after sunsets
Back when we were young and
Living on a movie screen
We were so in love we never thought about where we were going
Could we take a moment and relive the days when we were back in
California
California

For just one night
Let’s go back
In time

Had your hand in mine, the tide
Washed our names from the shore
Losing track of time, oh our style
Tie-dye shirts on the floor

A couple days in San Diego
Sunscreen and nowhere else to be
In that faded Winnebago
Making hella memories

Wish that we could go back
More than just a throwback
Baby only you and me
Chasing after sunsets
Back when we were young and
Living on a movie screen
We were so in love we never thought about where we were going
Could we take a moment and relive the days when we were back in
California
California

And I wish that it was more than just a memory
But the flashbacks appear so real to me
When I had you right here right next to me, whoa
California
I close my eyes and you’re here with me
‘Cause the flashbacks appear so real to me
The moment that I knew that we were meant to be, whoa

For just one night
Let’s go back
For just one night
Let’s go back
In time

Ain’t worried if I’m out by the lakeside
No I don’t really care what we do
‘Cause everything just falls by the wayside
When I take time with you

Am I crazy for not wanting to chase lights?
Oh, I just want a table for two
No, I don’t need a reason to make time for date night with you

You and me alone better than all the pictures on my phone
How could I not give in, baby?
How could I ever say no?

Too good to be true, but we’re living our dream
Candle light on the roof, but we’re still in our jeans
It’s you and I
Dance in the good life
Dancing
Inside of our room where we’re giving up sleep
Like Paris in June, but we’re just on our street
It’s you and I
Take in the view like
Dance in the good life

We don’t have to worry ‘bout next week
And it might look a little bit messy
But what’s trendy just pretends we won’t forget

You and me alone better than all the pictures on my phone
How could I not give in, baby?
How could I ever say no?

Too good to be true, but we’re living our dream
Candle light on the roof, but we’re still in our jeans
It’s you and I
Dance in the good life
Dancing
Inside of our room where we’re giving up sleep
Like Paris in June, but we’re just on our street
It’s you and I
Take in the view like
Dance in the good life

Are we both insane?
Dancing in the rain
Captions full of words that never really could explain
Maybe we’re insane, but
There’s nothing I would change yeah
Passing all these memories, but I’m still just stuck on

You and me alone better than all the pictures on my phone
How could I not give in, baby?
How could I ever say no?

Too good to be true, but we’re living our dream
Candle light on the roof, but we’re still in our jeans
It’s you and I
Dance in the good life
Dancing
Inside of our room where we’re giving up sleep
Like Paris in June, but we’re just on our street
It’s you and I
Take in the view like
Dance in the good life

Are we both insane?
Dancing in the rain
Captions full of words that never really could explain
Maybe we’re insane, but
There’s nothing I would change yeah
Passing all these memories, but I’m still just stuck on you

You and me alone better than all the pictures on my phone
How could I not give in, baby?
How could I ever say no?

Too good to be true, but we’re living our dream
Candle light on the roof, but we’re still in our jeans
It’s you and I
Dance in the good life
Dancing
Inside of our room where we’re giving up sleep
Like Paris in June, but we’re just on our street
It’s you and I
Take in the view like
Dance in the good life

10 past 12 sitting criss-crossed on the floor
Scrolling through photos from way before
Got my head missing how we used to be
Wishing I could see you just to say that

You can think it through I just
Can’t get over you oh
How do I keep you from slipping through my hands?
I don’t think you want it as
Bad as you know I do
How do I keep you from slipping through my hands?

Talked till 3, spent the night in your Accord
Wrapped in my jacket to keep you warm
Woke to see it was more than just a dream
Wishing I could see you just the same but

You can think it through I just
Can’t get over you oh
How do I keep you from slipping through my hands?
I don’t think you want it as
Bad as you know I do
How do I keep you from slipping through my hands?

Oh, oh, oh
Oh how do I keep you?

I want I want you to be
Happy even without me
What I’d give to make you feel alright so

You can think it through I just
Can’t get over you oh
How do I keep you from slipping through my hands?
I don’t think you want it
Bad as you know I do
How do I keep you from slipping through my hands?

Oh, oh, oh
Oh how do I keep you?

You can think it through I just
Can’t get over you oh
How do I keep you from slipping through my hands?
I don’t think you want it
Bad as you know I do
How do I keep you from slipping through my hands?

You were my best friend
But five years down that road to find it was a dead end
And I still get your texts but you’re not getting the message

You said see you tomorrow
But I’m waking up on the coast and you’re in Utah
Is this working out how you thought, you thought?

You know
I’m not okay, I’m not okay
But you still
Hit me the same as back when we were
Something
Turned into nothing, that wasn’t love
Oh I, oh I, know I
Can’t say I don’t, I don’t mind

‘Cause what you’re asking for ain’t cheap
And see the problem is that you don’t know me
You say that you feel me
But I think that you’re just feeling lonely, oh I
I tried so hard, but you moved on so baby honestly
Oh I, know I
Can’t say I don’t, I don’t

And I hate that it’s not how it was
When we both ran away to the Cape for a month but
Just some things you can’t save when you want them
Left it behind now you’re looking for something
You told me it was over but I saw your caller ID
When you hit me on Wednesday
I don’t need to hear what your friends say, friends say

You know
I’m not okay, I’m not okay
But you still
Hit me the same as back when we were
Something
Turned into nothing, that wasn’t love
Oh I, oh I, know I
Can’t say I don’t, I don’t mind

‘Cause what you’re asking for ain’t cheap
And see the problem is that you don’t know me
You say that you feel me
But I think that you’re just feeling lonely, oh I
I tried so hard, but you moved on so baby honestly
Oh I, know I
Can’t say I don’t, I don’t mind
Can’t say I don’t, I don’t mind
Can’t say I don’t, I don’t mind
Can’t say I don’t mind

Twenty-five
You thought by now you might figure out
How to live a happy, healthy life
But sometimes you hear those same old lies

Make believe
Sometimes it feels like you’re in a dream
And I can see that your lungs can breathe
But you’re just praying it won’t up and leave

You’re lying awake
Tears stained on your face
Can’t love what you hate
But deep down you know what I know
That you didn’t find, you didn’t find, you didn’t find love that way

Oh you’ve been gone
For way too long
Our vision blurred now
But I feel you strong
Where do we go?
How do we move on?
‘Cause I won’t let you lose you
Yeah you, you know I

That I won’t, won’t
That I won’t, won’t
That I won’t
That I won’t let you lose you

Patiently
You feel you’re stuck somewhere in between
The way it seems and what’s meant to be
Wondering how this could go differently

You’re lying awake
Tears stained on your face
Can’t love what you hate
But deep down you know what I know
That you didn’t find, you didn’t find, you didn’t find love that way

Oh you’ve been gone
For way too long
Our vision blurred now
But I feel you strong
Where do we go?
How do we move on?
‘Cause I won’t let you lose you
Yeah you, you know I

That I won’t, won’t
That I won’t, won’t
That I won’t
That I won’t let you lose you

I know that you know you’ll find
What you thought you left behind
But always I swear that I
Won’t let you lose you
I know that you know you’ll find
What you thought you left behind
But always I swear that I
Won’t let you lose you

Baby
I’m not running from the casualties
‘Cause it might hurt, but it’s not bad for me
‘Cause we’re living in a masterpiece

Lately
When life is moving way too fast for me
I’ve been taking off my mask to see
That we’re living in a masterpiece

We built houses on top of all the hills and mountains
But I’m not scared to fall from here
When I have your hand in mine

Maybe we’ll look back and
See our dreams from far away
That we had all that we could need to be happy
If we could do this different
We would choose it all the same
‘Cause we have all that we could need to be happy

We could need to be happy
We could need

Baby
When our world was falling painfully
And there was nothing left to make-believe
I stayed with you, you stayed with me

Changing
All the ways I thought it had to be
‘Cause I don’t have to live so tactfully
Oh, we’re living in a masterpiece

We built houses on top of all the hills and mountains
But I’m not scared to fall from here
When I have your hand in mine

Maybe we’ll look back and
See our dreams from far away
That we had all that we could need to be happy
If we could do this different
We would choose it all the same
‘Cause we have all that we could need to be happy

Oh
Oh, I’m happy when I have your hand in mine

Maybe we’ll look back and
See our dreams from far away
That we had all that we could need to be happy
If we could do this different
We would choose it all the same
‘Cause we have all that we could need to be happy

Oh my, darling
Can we just get home?
I hate this feeling
Can I just hold you?

“Too good to be true,” they told you
They spoke too soon
I know in my heart we’ll get through
Oh we need to

So babe, wait, how could we leave this alone?
We’re worth too much to just let it go
Oh my God, I wish I could make this not hurt
But don’t be scared we’re falling in place
So wait

Why try to hide when our cover’s see-through?
Not much to say but that “I love you”

“Too good to be true,” they told you
They spoke too soon
I know in my heart we’ll get through
Oh we need to

So babe, wait, how could we leave this alone?
We’re worth too much to just let it go
Oh my God, I wish I could make this not hurt
But don’t be scared we’re falling in place
So wait

Oh so wait
Oh so wait
Oh so wait
So wait

Oh my, darling
Can we just get home?