I was the new kid
At your high school
The "Who are you?" kid
I wasn't cool, I was
Losing the game when you came to my rescue

You were sixteen
Going on twenty-one
Bit of a drama queen
Whole lotta fun, it was the
Fall of oh nine, I spent it trying to impress you

You were the light around my shadow
You were the air under my feet
I knew the truth would be hard to handle
I wanted you to see

Sitting beside you
On the quad grass
A little breakthrough
When I made you laugh and
Once in a while a look in your eye inspired me

You wrote me haikus
I wrote you paragraphs
I said I love you
That was the epitaph that
Ruined our fun by jumping the gun so you fired me

You were the light around my shadow
You were the air under my feet
I knew the truth would be hard to handle
I wanted you to see
The beautiful in me

Oh, the planets and the stars
And matters of the heart
They don't always align

But oh, the thunder and the rain
The memory of the pain
Stay with you all the time

It's twenty sixteen
I'm doing okay
You live in Red Bluff
I live in Green Bay when
Out of the blue this letter from you finds me

You say in high school
I was pretty rad
You didn't see it then
You wish you had.
Well the trouble with love is all the above, don't remind me.

You were the light around my shadow
You were the air under my feet
And now you think you can stoke the embers

You were the light around my shadow
You were the honey in my tea
Some things I'd just rather not remember
I wanted you to see
It wasn't up to me