Around You

Underage on the pavement
Streetlight as spotlight
Silent block, sidewalk seat
Pulling, picking weeds
Tell me all of it
You downplay the weight
By talking quick
While I braid your hair with my hands
Everywhere I look
There is a river
Notebook float that I live on
We gawk and laugh
Our tricks are the same color
Through the blue glass

The light just wants to hang around you
Time capsules already sorted through

And in the girls room, hip to hip
A circle of "I admit I..."
I just want to hang around you
Do
Do
Do
Do
Do you?

Do
Do
Do
Do
Do you?

Left off our names
Hid one in the toilet stall
Sprinkled a few in the hall
Stole the book about
Your favorite band
By throwing it out of the
School library's window
Said you got a ticket
From speeding to see me
That whole summer we wrote letters like
Anaïs and Henry

You left some things unsaid
And I liked you more for that

And in the girls room, hip to hip
A circle of "I admit I..."
I just want to hang around you
Do
Do
Do
Do
Do you?

Do
Do
Do
Do
Do you?

Do
Do
Do
Do
Do you?

Do
Do
Do
Do
Do you?