Purple Bandana

(Intro)

I saw you at the park in your purple bandana

Swinging with the kids on 4th of July

(Musical intro 4 measures)

I asked you your name

you told me to guess

I said beautiful

you started to cry

You laughed and then tilted

your head to the side

I asked what you were doing here

you told me a lie

(Pre Chorus)

I know we’re not together

I can’t get enough

Just to be around you

You keep calling my bluff

It seems like coincidence

It’s part of the plan

I’d give up everything if I could be your….

(Chorus)

Man I wish it turned out different

Man I wish I changed your mind

Man I should’ve fought like hell for you

Instead of running out of time

Man I’d trade every second

Man I’d redraw every line

Man I wish it turned out different

Man I wish that you were still mine

(Verse 2)

You drew little lines in the dirt with your shoe

Like you didn’t wanna say what we both knew

I asked if you’re happy, you said “I’m alright”

But your voice didn’t sound like it used to that night

The fireworks lit up your face in red

I wondered if he hears the things I said

You looked at your phone, then back at me

Like we were standing where we shouldn’t be

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(Pre Chorus 2)

I know I don’t have you

But I don’t let go

I’m stuck in the echo

Of what we both know

It feels like the universe

Twisting the knife

Letting me see you

But not in my life

(Chorus)

Man I wish it turned out different

Man I wish I changed your mind

Man I should’ve fought like hell for you

Instead of running out of time

Man I’d trade every second

Man I’d redraw every line

Man I wish it turned out different

Man I wish that you were still mine

Still mine

Man I wish you were still

Mine