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I wish I met you ten years ago
When I was eighteen
A tragic late bloomer with no sense of humor
dreaming of my gypsy queen

You would've found me on the couch
playing with my flip phone
at some house party off campus
waiting to walk home alone

You would’ve offered me a pot brownie
When I imagine it now
and we would’ve talked all night
danced till sunrise
and I would’ve kissed your mouth- without a doubt

It would’ve saved me so much time
Knowing it was always you
on that far end of forever
That I’ve been singing to

Forever is not enough
I want a whole life through to love you
I wish I had junior year to disappear in your brown eyes
My first song
It should've been your song
My first high
It should've been your arms
A life to love you
I want a whole life through to love you
I want a whole life long to love you more

I wish I met you at five years old through a crack in the fence
back when when clouds were angles
and your hair was in tangles
and the world was its own sacrament

Those halcyon flashes
through the hour glass sand
Now I only see in pictures
when I once could've held your hand

I couldn't saved you from your parents fighting
I could've joined you in the closet hiding
You could've saved me from the prejudice
and those goddamned fundamentalists


In the time that I have left
I won't waste the rest of these years
I want twin Roman candles shooting
I want twin liter beers

Forever is not enough I want a whole life through to love you
we coulda had swim team and spring steen and blue skies

Forever is not enough
I want a whole life through to love you
I wish I had junior year to disappear in your brown eyes
My first song
It should've been your song
My first time
It should've been your arms
A life to love you
I want a whole life through to love you
I want a whole life long to love you more

And if we come back here, let's find each other first

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from The Native Genius of Desert Plants, released June 2, 2015

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