Photos From When We Were Young

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I was looking at photos from when we were young
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Your hair is light blue and you're smiling in one
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And it's a strange remembrance brought on by this semblance
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Oh we were so serious, shy, inexperienced

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Oh so unsure of ourselves
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Making mistakes without anyone's help
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And I thought of the ways I remember you well


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Some sweet recollection of redwoods and raspberry vines
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Boys you wrote postcards to numerous times
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The uncertainty then, like some sentence of sin
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Punctuated by moments of tenderness when
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There were long conversations, sharing of beds
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Walks home from swimming pools giddy, impressionable,
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The distance grew up like the night
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Decisions were silence or preemptive flight
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Yeah the queer kids I knew, we did tend to be shy


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And your parents just couldn't get over their shit
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They spoke of how all their ambitions were split
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But they still let you in and tried to pretend
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Now you let them refer to your lovers as friends
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And I wish they could see how it hurts
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Or affirm your existence with interested words
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Yeah their self-obsession's a patriarched curse


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So you made a family from people you found
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Your grew into yourself with those weirdos around
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Late nights talking at home, or dancing 'til dawn
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Or driving all day, 'cause you're sick of the phone
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Yeah, the good ones they tend to leave town
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It helps to write letters and say "come on down"
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Yeah I'm so much better when you're around


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And I think of you when I put on your old clothes
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We don't talk all that often, who ever does?
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But I'll visit you soon and sing you a tune
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About finding a family somewhere in the ruins

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Of the expectations we once knew
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We'll try to make peace with our patriarchs too