You hid me in your dorm room
It was Halloweekend, I just flew across the globe
Twenty-two hours just to see you
Just to barely fit on your twin-sized bed
You hid me in your dorm room
It was Halloweekend, I just flew across the globe
Twenty-two hours just to see you
Just to barely fit on your twin-sized bed
And talk about your cool new friend
Who I never met, who you dated as soon as I left
[Verse 2]
Carolina autumn
It had been a year since I saw you
Since we ended it
Had a year to grow into the girl you always wanted
Now we're holding hands as not quite friends
But not quite lovers
Well, we'll just pretend
You say, "It's complicated to make amends"
Well, is that the way that we're headed then?
[Pre-Chorus]
And you couldn't answer me
Though you could pull me in while I brushed my teeth
And let your hands both freely speak
Like I wasn't ever gonna leave, leave
[Chorus]
You were all I'd ever known
And now I'm supposed to love you from a distance
Like it's nothing, like it's instant
And you say, "Let's just see where this goes"
And I don't know how or why you seem just fine
Cause I'm having to grasp that you're somehow not mine anymore
It's so cruel how things are only almost like they were before
[Post-Chorus]
Like they were before
Like they were before
Like they were before
[Verse 3]
We walk downtown and it's charming
You're alarmingly disarming
Yeah, we've got forty-eight hours left
Before I fly back to my death
While you stay just fine and feel alive
South of the Mason-Dixon line
Where everyone closes shop at nine
Where you could somehow finally find
[Pre-Chorus]
What you were desperately looking for
Funny how you thought that was gonna be New York
With our chalkboard walls and slanted floors
Oh, we could've had that and so much more
Ask your new lover what it's like to be given
A real fighting chance before you wish her, "Good riddance"
Did anything ever really count
Or was I just a two-year practice round?
[Chorus]
You were all I'd ever known
And now I'm feeling stupid, you're forbidden
They say, yeah, we were something, too bad we were children
Ooh, I don't know where to go
And I don't know how or why you seem just fine
Cause I'm looking at you and God knows you're not mine anymore
It's so cruel how things will never be the way they were before
[Outro]
Like they were before
It's almost just like how it was before
But it's not anymore
Skryl si ma vo svojej internáte
Bol to Halloweekend, práve som preletel po celom svete
Dvadsaťdva hodín, aby som ťa videl
Len aby som sa sotva zmestil na svoju dvojicu posteľ
A hovor o svojom chladnom novom priateľovi
S kým som sa nikdy nestretol, s kým ste chodili, len čo som odišiel
[Verš 2]
Jesenná Carolina
Bol to už rok, čo som ťa videl
Pretože sme to ukončili
Mal rok, aby som vyrástol do dievčaťa, ktoré si vždy chcel
Teraz sa držíme za ruky ako nie celkom priatelia
Ale nie celkom milenci
No, budeme len predstierať
Hovoríte: „Je zložité robiť zmeny“
Je to tak, ako vtedy smerujeme?
[Presorus]
A nemohol si mi odpovedať
Aj keď si ma mohol vtiahnuť, keď som si čistil zuby
A nechajte svoje ruky slobodne hovoriť
Akoby som nikdy neodišiel, odísť
[Chorus]
Bol si všetko, čo som kedy poznal
A teraz ťa mám milovať z diaľky
Ako to nie je nič, akoby to bolo okamžité
A vy povieš: „Uvidíme, kam to ide“
A neviem, ako alebo prečo sa zdajú dobre
Pretože musím pochopiť, že už nie si môj
Je také kruté, ako sú veci takmer také, ako boli predtým
[Po chóre]
Akoby boli predtým
Akoby boli predtým
Akoby boli predtým
[Verš 3]
Kráčame do centra mesta a je to očarujúce
Alarmujúco odzbrojíte
Áno, zostáva nám štyridsaťosem hodín
Predtým, ako odletím späť k svojej smrti
Kým zostanete v pohode a cítite sa nažive
Južne od línie Mason-Dixon
Kde všetci uzatvára obchod o deviatej
Kde by ste nejako mohli nájsť konečne
[Presorus]
Čo si zúfalo hľadal
Vtipné, ako si si myslel, že to bude New York
S našimi stenami tabule a šikmými podlahami
Och, mohli sme to mať a ešte oveľa viac
Opýtajte sa svojho nového milenca, aké to je dať
Skutočná bojová šanca skôr, ako si jej želáte: „Dobrý riddance“
Urobilo niečo, čo sa skutočne počítalo
Alebo som bol iba dvojročným tréningom?
[Chorus]
Bol si všetko, čo som kedy poznal
A teraz sa cítim hlúpo, ty si zakázaný
Hovoria, áno, boli sme niečo, príliš zlé, že sme boli deťmi
Ooh, neviem, kam mám ísť
A neviem, ako alebo prečo sa zdajú dobre
Pretože sa na teba pozerám a Boh vie, že už nie si môj
Je také kruté, ako to nikdy nebude také, aké boli predtým
[Outro]
Akoby boli predtým
Je to skoro ako predtým, ako to bolo predtým
Ale už to nie je