Ode to You

Phone calls til 2 am,

Talking bout that boy again

Makin plans for Friday night

Hoping it would all go right,

Grateful Dead’s that taste like hell

We were caught up in a spell

Of freedom

Old enough but not quite old enough

To know the difference of up or down

Gettin lost in a great big town,

Going out to the Masquerade,

Be careful with that lemonade

It’s bittersweet,

But it’ll knock you off your feet,

Oh when your 23

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Part time job, but you eat well

Getting far, only time will tell

Big dreams of the city,

New York lights,

London Bridge or Vegas nights

Oh freedom,

Far enough, but not quite far enough

To get away from the mundane,

Go dancing in the summer rain,

Feel the ocean breeze in your hair,

One day you’d go anywhere

Away from here,

To go alone is your only fear,

Oh when your 23

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Oh—-if I could be

Oh—-23

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10 years since we’ve been there

Settled down, and well aware

Things will never be the same again

No need in stayin on Memory Lane

Gotta say goodbye, before the pain

Cause’ a friendships gotta go both ways

Oh freedom,

Hard enough, but not quite hard enough

To let it go before it slips away

A decade feels like yesterday,

No days would be better than these

When we were Thelma & Louise

I’ll always hold those moments dear,

All the days, all my years

My heart will laugh, then I will cry

I’ll probably always wonder why

I wasn’t worth it,

When I thought you were worth it

When I thought that we were worth it

Oh, when your 23