Seventeen - Beth Crowley

I can go for days, even months

without thinking of you, not even once

then like a wave you come crashing into my dreams

I’m sitting with you in your beat up car

laughing and looking up at the stars

a shadow falls over your face as you turn to me

You say I won’t be happy til I give you the world

Don’t you know you’ll always be my girl

and I wake up with your words echoing through my head

Are you thinking of me where you are now?

Are you happy with how your life’s turning out?

I know we were kids back then

but it’s not fair to downplay it

Too many years have since gone by

to confess what’s been haunting me all of this time

That a part of me is seventeen

and still in love with you

I leave my eyes closed so I can keep

slow dancing with your memory

But the image that once burned brightly starts to fade

I know I romanticize all that we were

at the end of the day you and I didn’t work

Yet so much of who I am I owe to you

If I knew back then what I know now

Could have foretold the end somehow

I still don’t think I would change a thing

about how I felt at seventeen