Memory Lane
By AJ Lindsey
"19"
good times game nights in my best friends apartment
staring at the ceiling laying down on somebody’s carpet
waking up at 8 AM questioning all my life choices
Driving 80 down the road slept in a little too late
my college days
I would never replace when I was 19
made so many mistakes
in every simpleton way when I was 19
when I was 19, 19
only got a couple dollars to my name but it’s alright
should have studied but we hung around until we saw daylight
needed dinner cafeteria that’s when you had met me
said I should come on over meet me out on avenue c
my college days
I would never replace when I was 19
made so many mistakes
in every simpleton way when I was 19
when I was 19, 19
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my college days
I would never replace when I was 19
made so many mistakes
in every simpleton way when I was 19
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"Time"
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maybe I stayed up a little too late that night
I was thinking about the moment you’d get on that flight
maybe I wanted none of it to come true
I worried so much I forgot about you
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thinking of ways to bring a freight train to a stop
hoping that what we saw coming simply would not
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but we’ve run out of time
thinking its hopeless, how could we know it
wishing we wouldn’t run out of time
it’s all that we had, now it’s all in the past
we took it too fast and we’ve run out of
time
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nights in the car outside the grocery store
talking for hours but I can’t remember anymore
too side tracked, unattached
'cause I know you're leaving too soon
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now we’ve run out of time
thinking its hopeless, how could we know it
wishing we wouldn’t run out of time
it’s all that we had, now it’s all in the past
we took it too fast and we’ve run out of
time
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what if we waited just another moment longer
maybe we’ll get younger, then we can start over
what if we held on to each other even stronger
we could freeze in time together
we’ve run out of time
thinking its hopeless, how could we know it
wishing we wouldn’t run out of time
it’s all that we had, now it’s all in the past
we took it too fast and we’ve run out of
time
we’ve run out of time
thinking its hopeless, how could we know it
wishing we wouldn’t run out of...
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"Sit in Silence"
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there must be something in the water
somehow I got this way
maybe I’ll find it but why should I bother
I’ll make the same mistake
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the days that I had when all was together
was taken from me
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I can’t escape
maybe it’s the choices that I made
but I know one day
I’ll get up off the ground and fly away
I’ll fly away
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there was a time when I could run and
leave all my worries at the door
I thought I could make it but I had to face it
having to live but speak no more
the days that I had when all was together
was taken from me
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and I can’t escape
maybe it’s the choices that I made
but I know one day
I’ll get up off the ground and fly away
I’ll fly away
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I will sit in silence
I’ll embrace the quiet
I will chase the time when I could hear myself
I won’t stop my breathing
I know there’s a reason
maybe i’m just healing and it is well
but I still feel like
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I can’t escape
maybe it’s the choices that I made
but I know one day
I’ll get up off the ground and fly away
I’ll fly away
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"Happier (When You're Gone)"
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I’m trapped in this water and I’m trying to get out
I’ve done everything but your just bringing me down
I’ve been through it all and I thought I saw the light
but then you crept in and you put up a fight
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why can't you move on
'cause I’ll be happier when your gone
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I’d like to get going pack my things and hit the road
we’d move our separate ways oh but you won’t let me go
you really want to do this, talk about how we were friends
you may have been the start but you can bet I’ll be the end
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why can't you move on
'cause I’ll be happier when your gone
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I’ll be happier when
I’ll be happier when
I’ll be happier when
when you’re gone
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