[Verse 1]
Shoebox photos in a line
Crooked smiles
Grass-stained time
Frozen birthdays
Paper crowns
Younger me
You never learned to doubt
You had questions
Never shame
Spoke in crayons
Wrote your name
On the world like it was yours
Before you locked your heart behind a door
[Chorus]
I wanna go back to little me
Before I learned I wasn’t easy to love
Hold her hand and let her see
She was always more than good enough
If I could turn back every clock I see
I’d learn to love me
Like I loved me
Back when I was three
[Verse 2]
Kitchen light on Sunday nights
Cartoons loud
Pajamas tight
Fell asleep mid-story half the time
Didn’t care if every line would rhyme
Now I count the things I lack
Replay words I can’t take back
But in those days I never kept the score
I just ran to knock on every door
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[Bridge]
One day I’ll meet that girl again
In the mirror
As a friend
Tell her every broken piece is gold
Every secret she was scared to show
I’ll be softer when I speak my name
Drop the weight
Lose the blame
I’ll become the person she believed I’d be
Patient
Kind
More loveable
To me
[Chorus]