The One I Kept

There's a key on the necklace 'round his neck
We're both laying side by side
With my head on his chest, slow breathing
Arms around me in a summer night

I hear him call my name, look me in the eyes
I wonder why he's smiling now
A green and brown canvas
Let the paint mark my skin, oh

I wrote a hundred letters and I threw them all away
I never thought that he'd ever get to read everything I had to say
Telling myself I should wait

We're sitting on his bed, face to face
Laughing like we're kids, talking in our last year
(Ooh) And he tells me how much he likes my smile
And I can't bring myself to tell him what's on my mind
How could I prepare myself for a moment like this?
365 days
(Ooh) Sunsets in May never made me feel so alive
Oh, what a time

'Cause I wrote a hundred letters and I threw them all away
Never thought that he'd ever get to listen to this anyway
Telling myself I should wait, oh

Oh, we're suddenly eighteen
We forgot how to breathe, we forgot how to talk
But he's holding my hand as a gust of wind takes all of it away

'Cause I wrote a hundred letters and I threw them all away
Never thought that he'd ever get to listen to this anyway
Telling myself I should wait, oh

There's a clef on the necklace 'round my neck
He gave his heart away
'Cause he had mine when we met
'Cause he had mine when we