Timeline

We started on the rocky planes, a cross above our heads
With tired eyes protesting that you must arise from bed
You can walk away complaining with a confidence so tall
That there's someone there to take you home and talk you through it all

The girls concern their truest loves - the boys concern the girls
The Carter's have their puppies and their backyard fairy world
It talked me straight from eight to twelve and took me to the sky
Now she's got her city scapes and is taking off to fly

There's a boy with friendly eyes, he smiles like the moon
Who knows what that meant to me, though I guess I'll find out soon
I should've told that boy with curls, told him one thing true
We are a rock, we'll always be there, and I in love with you

But I watched my love come over me as thought it were a curse
I've had my shining moments, honey, but that one was my worst
I guess that it was worth it cause I got to be with you
But I cried more in that last year than I'll ever have to do

Now I'm in a hotel room in a town that I don't known
The nightgown that I'm wearing has no hands on it to show
You see there's no one here to circumvent this growing mess of hair
No one there to justify the amount I've always cared

But caring is the core of it, you see, I've cared about it all
And all of you I've met here have softened every fall
That cross above my eager head now doesn't mean a thing
But the wings from every smile here have taught me how to sing

Now we've all got different roads to take, but none of us are fit to drive
There were more than cups of whiskey, honey, to make you feel as though you were alive
Now even in a hotel room or by the lakeshore all alone
I smiled all the goddamn way home