I wish this was how each summer night ended, with my chest and you pressed against it
Sitting on my porch talking of all the places we know we’ll go
And I wish the hardest that life got was smoking cigarettes with you in the parking lot
The shopping lights hanging over, the few things we know for sure
But it’s not and you’re leaving, I could see you retreating
New Years Day on a barroom floor I asked where did you go?
And these walls we’ve been building, necessary and unfulfilling
It feels like an important shot I’ll never get to take at all

And I’ve found one problem with the travelling spirit
When you got some words but you know it’s best if they don’t hear it

I hope you say no to nothing, kuz in the coming weeks
You’ll meet a million men more handsome with more charming words than me
And on a night you never want to end, that’s perfect, dark, and still
Know I’d rather walk alone than see you unfulfilled

I wish every winter morning started with you fast asleep and you’re clothes discarded
Across my bedroom floor, I’d lie awake and we’d face the day
Your words confirm what I believe, that life’s a fuse not a penitentiary
We make the best of our burning time, it’s why we go away
But I’m here and you’re gone, daylight lasts 8 hours long
I’m trudging through these same old steps while your feet cover new ground
I tried my very best with silence and awkwardness
There’s a million things I’d like to have said but thought it best not to make a sound

And I know too well the problems with staying behind
You hope for preservation while the world opens their mind

I hope you say no to nothing kuz in the next few days
You might find a man or moment who could steal your breath away
But on a night you only want to end when optimism’s killed
Know I think the world of you and I always will

But the powerlessness of it all will make you curse what lacks above
Kuz her words could nearly stop your heart and her body boils your blood
And you’d give anything just to touch her skin by the salt of a seaside view
You only want what’s best for her even if it don’t include you

I hope you say no to nothing so when you get back home
You’re not losing sleep on what could have been, it’s much better that we know
I hope you say no to nothing up through your final days
We’re nothing more than bones and blood and the chances that we take
It’s for those very reasons that I gotta speak my mind
When we hear those songs about leaving, we don’t assume we’re who’s left behind
I tried my best to fight these thoughts but it felt so wrong
Kuz I would never hold you back but if you wanted to hold on
Then we could both say no to nothing with the knowledge that we left
Behind this routine of mortgages, work then sleep then death
But if on those nights you never want to end, it’s not me by your side
As long as you’re laughing hard then that’s alright