Old Souls

Make no mistake
This isn’t a song for you
Just a collection of words to write before I fall asleep

The choices I make
Are all I’m afraid to lose
Try to forget the empty promises I keep

To me you were the right time, right place, wrong decision
Sometimes you decide to know the things you can’t believe
We lay here with our eyes closed, old souls begging forgiveness
The light of the sun will come and take you away from me

Make no mistake
It’s not that I trusted you
It’s that I put my fragile heart into your hands

And there you were
A rebel beside yourself
A shadow of loss, a sight in the light that I can’t stand

But to me you were the right place, right time, wrong decision
Sometimes you decide to know the things you can’t believe
We lay here with our eyes closed, old souls begging forgiveness
The light of the sun will come and take you away from me

Looking back we knew it wasn’t real
You were just another touch to feel
You were just another place to spend the night
You were just another kiss to steal

But to me you were the right time, right place, wrong decision
Sometimes you decide to know the things you can’t believe
We lay here with our eyes closed, old souls begging forgiveness
The light of the sun will come and take you away from me

Tell me doll just what we’re doing here
'Cuz I don’t really know my place with you
Tell me all we are is friends and I will see just why
We don’t talk like we used to

But I know just what the problem was
And I know it’s not what you were thinking of
I swear the end snuck up on both of us
It never should have happened but girl we were love-drunk

Held my ears shut with the hands that shook
With every word you said I plugged them harder
What’s to come of all the time you took
The days are getting anything but harder

But I know just what the problem was
And I know it’s not what you were thinking of
I swear the end snuck up on both of us
It never should have happened but girl we were love-drunk

It’s the way you look at me
Just as you’re falling asleep
Like it’s already a dream

It’s the way you held me near
Like I was fighting your fears
And holding back all your tears

You know time’s in short supply
I know it’s not really goodbye

Be the smoke inside my lungs
Quicksand so I can’t run away love
I want you to stay love

Be the promise that I keep
Daydreams when I can’t sleep alone love
I miss you in my bones love
I miss you in my bones

It’s the way you laugh at me
At how I always agree
When I don’t know what you mean

It’s the way you say my name
You tell me that we’re the same
And how I can’t look away

You know time’s in short supply
I know it’s not really goodbye

Be the smoke inside my lungs
Quicksand so I can’t run away love
I want you to stay love

Be the promise that I keep
Daydreams when I can’t sleep alone love
I miss you in my bones love
I miss you in my bones

I don’t sleep much anymore
I just lay awake with my eyes on the door
Waiting for some sort of sign
The rejuvenation of my tired mind

I know that door swings both ways
I know 'cause I haven’t seen you for days

I held you like my tongue for far too long
I could leave this place but I don’t
I could call your name but I won’t

It’s times like this I make a change
Get a tattoo or decide to be vain
Or maybe I’ll just run away
Pick a new name and head south, hopping trains

I know that door swings both ways
I know 'cause I haven’t seen you for days

I held you like my tongue for far too long
I could leave this place but I don’t
I could call your name but I won’t

I’d rather just stay on my own
I’d rather be numb drunk and stoned
Than worried, I’ll wind up alone
Or whether or not you’ll come home

I held you like my tongue for far too long
I could leave this place but I don’t
I could call your name but I won’t
'Cause you’re gone