[Verse 1]
Found you in a paperback
Folded in the spine
Blue ink, tiny heartbreak
Sixteen and feeling fine
I almost left you there
Like a coin on a train
Then your name hit harder
Than the summer rain
[Pre-Chorus]
And the room got small
And my knees went weak
Like I knew your laugh
Was about to speak
From the back of my head
From a schoolyard scar
You were wrapped in paper
You were never that far
[Chorus]
Bookmark heart, bookmark heart
You came back undone
Bookmark heart, bookmark heart
Like we never got done
Oh, I’m ten miles gone
From who we were then
But your little blue line
Knocked me back again
[Verse 2]
There was gum on the cover
And a ticket stub
You wrote, “meet me later”
With that crooked shove
By the skating rink
Under broken street signs
We were all bad timing
And perfect at the same time
[Pre-Chorus]
And the pages shook
In my unsteady hand
I could taste that night
Like a sleepless band
With a chipped black ring
And a stolen glance
We were one blink shy
Of a whole big chance
[Chorus]
Bookmark heart, bookmark heart
You came back undone
Bookmark heart, bookmark heart
Like we never got done
Oh, I’m ten miles gone
From who we were then
But your little blue line
Knocked me back again
[Bridge]
[Half-time]
I laughed out loud
Then I almost cried
You were a paper ghost
With a wild green eye
If I close this book
Will you stay right here?
Or fade with the dust
And the adolescent years?
[Final Chorus]
Bookmark heart, bookmark heart
You came back undone
Bookmark heart, bookmark heart
Like we never got done
Oh, I’m ten miles gone
From who we were then
But your little blue line
Knocked me back again
Bookmark heart, bookmark heart
Stay folded in my chest
Some loves get hidden
Some haunt the rest