Eighteen

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[verse 1]
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I wish I met you ten years ago, when I was eighteen:
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A tragic late bloomer with no sense of humor, dreaming of my gypsy queen.
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You would have found me on the couch, playing with my flip phone
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At some house party off-campus, waiting to walk home alone.
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You would have offered me a pot brownie, when I imagine it now,
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And we would have talked all night and danced to the sunrise, and I would have kissed your 
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mouth,
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It would have saved us so much time, knowing it was always you
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On that far end of forever that I've been singing to.

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Forever is not enough, I want a whole life through to love you
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I wish I had junior year to disappear in your brown eyes.
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My first song should have been your song. My first time,  should have been your arms.
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A life to love you. I want a whole life through to love you.
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I want a whole life through to love you more.
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I want a whole life through to love you more.
[verse 2]
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I wish I met you at five years old through a crack in the fence
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Back when clouds were angels and your hair was in tangles and the world was its own sacrament.
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In those halcyon flashes through the hourglass sand.
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Now I only see in pictures when once I could have held your hand.
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I could have saved you from your parents' fighting. I could have joined you in the closet 
hiding.
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You could have saved me from the predjudice and the goddamned fundamentalists.
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But in the time that I have left, I will not waste the rest of these years.
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I want twenty Roman candles shooting; I want twin liter beers.

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Forever is not enough, I want a whole life through to love you
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We could have had Springsteen, swim team, and blue skies.
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My first song should have been your song. My first time,   should have been your arms.
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A life to love you. I want a whole life through to love you.
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I want a whole life through to love you more.
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I want a whole life through to love you more.
[outro]
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And if we come back here,
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Let's find each other first.