17

Your hair is longer now
Looks like you put on some weight too
Different from last May
You looked happier
but maybe it's just a face

Was kind of hard to concentrate
Seeing you after all this time
But there's one thing that I can't escape
The familiar touch of your embrace

It used to be so hard for me to look at you
and try to see the good in you
with everything we've been through

But this time all that I could see
was the you when you were 17
and it hurt me in a place that cut so deep
That for a sec I think I almost saw the me
that I gave to you so long ago
back when you were 17

Yeah, this new place of yours
it's way nicer than our last one
and I couldn't help but ask myself
would I have been happier there too

When you were lookin' at me
what did ya see
Was it all the things we could've been

It used to be so hard for me to look at you
and try to see the good in you
with everything that we've been through

But this time all that I could see
was the you when you were 17
and it hurt me in a place that cut so deep
That for a sec I think I almost saw the me
that I gave to you so long ago
back when you were 17

Yeah sure, love is fine when it's new
but what does it come down to
when two people always seem to fall into
All the heartache and the fights
Just five years ago, this time
He was the purpose in my mind
But I guess 16 was young for "my whole life"

That day I came to get my things
and when I looked at you
I only saw the good in you
I turned back to 16

And all that I could see
was the boy when he was 17
and it made me think of all the love that we
Let slip through the cracks beneath
the old floor of that apartment
that never could be cleaned
But we lost that love forever
but still, all I could see
was 17, 17, 17