Pen To Paper

Pen to paper (Yeah)
There I was
A precocious little
12 Year old boy
With his first crush
I wrote poems
About you and me
I would write at least
A letter every day
Although you never see me
Beaming when you'd say hi
And while all my friends
Were riding bikes
Doing power slides
Teasing old man Sykes

I was putting
Pen to paper (Yeah)
Oh yeah
I was putting
Pen to paper (Yeah, yeah)
I was putting pen to paper, ooh
I was putting
Pen to paper (Yeah, yeah)

There I was
A nervous eighteen
Year old kid
With the same crush
I still wrote about
You and me
The Valentines I wrote
I was too scared
To let you read yeah
I was happy when
You'd just say hi
And while my friends
Were driving cars
Getting drunk in bars
And moving out of town

I was putting
Pen to paper (By my window come rain or shine)
I was putting
Pen to paper (All the seasons will pass me by)
Ooh, I was putting
Pen to paper (Yeah, yeah)

Imagine my surprise
To find that you felt
The same way all this time
Imagine my surprise
To find that you've
Written a book of
Poems of rhymes about us

Pen to paper (By my window come rain or shine)
I was putting
Pen to paper (All the seasons will pass me by)
Yeah, yeah, I was putting
Pen to paper

And here we are
Together in our family dream
Where the grass is green (I was putting pen to paper)
And the sprinklers on
In the summer sun
And our kids
Are drawing numbers
On the drive
So they can
Play hopscotch

Imagine my surprise (Yeah)
To find that you felt
The same way (I was putting pen to paper)
All this time
Imagine my surprise
To find that you've (Yeah, yeah)
Written a book
I wrote poems
About you
And me, Ooh (I was putting pen to paper)
And while my friends
Were driving cars
Getting drunk in bars
And moving out of town

I was putting
Pen to paper (By my window come rain or shine)
I was putting
Pen to paper (All the seasons will pass me by)
Yeah, yeah
I was putting
Pen to paper (By my window come rain or shine)
I was putting
Pen to paper (All the seasons will pass me by)
I was putting
Pen to paper