Numerology on the Line

1738 on the clock

I was broke

Same hoodie

Same block

Got a text

Just 6-7 words

Hit me harder than a punch

That hurt

Sixteen missed calls

You were done

I was twenty-one

Thought I was grown

Now it’s numbers on my phone screen

But your name still hits like morphine

1738

I still see your face

Every time I check the time

I’m right back in that place

Six and seven shots just to blur that day

Twenty-one and stupid

Let you walk away

1738

Yeah

It haunts me still

All these little numbers know the way I feel

1738

I can’t change that date

So I keep you in my head like a code I can’t erase

Six friends say “bro

Just move on”

Seven times I lie “yeah

I’m good

I’m calm”

Two a.m. hits

Truth walks in

One more thought of you

Same old spin

Twenty-one questions I can’t ask

Like who holds you now

Do they laugh like we laughed

Every digit is a door I won’t open

So I just let them glow on my lock screen

Unspoken

1738

I still see your face

Every time I check the time

I’m right back in that place

Six and seven shots just to blur that day

Twenty-one and stupid

Let you walk away

1738

Yeah

It haunts me still

All these little numbers know the way I feel

1738

I can’t change that date

So I keep you in my head like a code I can’t erase