Saw the pink moon rise above us
As I drove you home
From your parents' house
In the last slow week of May
And something in me started changing
When I heard the song
That was playing on the radio
Like it made me think too hard about my life
And I said
"I think that one day
We'll die. You and I."
And you said
"I hope to God you're right."
Oh
How easy it is to be a fool when you're in love
How easy it is to hide the cracks when the mask's still warm
And we were too new then to let them show
So we kept drivin' slow
And it was mostly silent the whole way home
And the trees looked lithe and long in the strange light of that night
But you were still by my side
You were all I needed
And we laughed it off
At the old backyard pool we broke into
In '04
When we were achin' for more
Broke the locks off an old rusty chest
To find what was in store
Oh
I painted a picture of you in my mind
You were my key to everything
Said you'd never leave
So we took off our clothes and climbed hand in hand
In the dim moonlight
And it felt so right
How could it not?
It was all we'd waited our whole lives for
We wanted to stay there forever
But we knew we should leave
So we got dressed and I lifted you over the fence
Then I went on my own
But the top cut a wound through my thigh when I climbed
And it scarred
But I'd do it all again
It's a long life for the lucky ones
It's a long life and we were the lucky ones
Well
I hope so
But I'll never know
Our bodies have grown foreign
Skin grown more worn and less pink
And you know you mean the world to me
But everything ends eventually
And I can't stay when it gets this way
Don't do it this time
But I already told you
"It's fine. Guess he was right. This is how it goes"