Conversations with my thirteen year old self Until we meet again I wish you well You're the girl I used to be Little girl You're angry I know this The world couldn't care less You're lonely

Even if you don't Couldn't you Well couldn't you Say you might For tonight Have a heart Bend the truth

You cut your teeth on the lack of answers, singing Come back home and it don't feel the same Well I've bled words onto a page for you And you never knew my name Didn't I warn you not to? Didn't I warn you good? Maybe we couldn't help it Maybe we never

Thank you for loving me When I couldn't breathe For being my eyes When I couldn't see Lock the doors We'll leave the world outside All I've got to give to you Are these five words when I For parting my lips

Well, as a child I mostly spoke inside my head I had conversations with the clouds, the dogs, the dead And they thought my broken, that my tongue was coated lead But I just couldn't make my words make sense to them If you only listen with your ears I

With plenty of money and you. It's the root of all evil, Of strife and upheaval. But I'm certain, honey, that life would be sunny Well, baby, what I couldn't do In spite of the worry that money brings. Just a little filthy looker buys a lot of things.

Wild horses couldn't drag me away Wild, wild horses couldn't drag me away Wild, wild horses we'll ride them some day Childhood living is easy to do The things you wanted I bought them for you Graceless lady you know who I am You know I can't let you

Nothing beats a failure like a try There's a great reward Someone will surely hail you Together we'll always be I saw you over there But what could I do? I couldn't stand and stare Or come and talk to you And it is always fair

I'm gonna live on solid rock I want to live on solid rock I want to give I don't want to be blocked Well take a look at that I made a castle in the sand Saying this is where it's at you know Couldn't understand now If I realised that the chances were

Since I met you Baby I'm happy as a man can be Well since I met you Baby You made a new man out of me I used to wake up in the morning with an aching head I couldn't remember anything I'd said My friends told me I was gun outta line If it wasn't for you