Thirteen Years On This Street

Lyrics

Verse 1
Thirteen years on this street
Cracked blue paint on the mailbox
Your name carved into that tree
Inside joke chalked on the sidewalk

Last June, bikes in the driveway
Late bus, we still walked slow
You planned the same high school hallway
Now you're packing up your clothes

Chorus
Goodbye Toronto
Skyline in the rearview glass
All our summers
Folded in a moving van
I don't know who I'll be
Under some small prairie sky
Thirteen years on this street
Now I'm learning how to say goodbye

Verse 2
Mom's voice, “It’s just a province”
Feels bigger than the world to you
Group chat blowing up your phone
“I'll visit,” “Call us when you're through”

Okotoks on the road sign
Name you practice in your head
Tiny dots instead of towers
Fields and fences up ahead

Chorus
Goodbye Toronto
Streetcars and the corner store
All our plans for
Lockers side by side, fourth floor
I don't know who I'll be
Where the stars actually shine
Thirteen years on this street
Now I'm learning how to cross that line

Bridge
Will they still laugh at my stories? (oh)
Will they remember my face?
You trace their names on the window
As the city slips away

Chorus
Goodbye Toronto
But don't you let my number fade
Save one seat for
Me in every plan you make
I don't know who I'll be
But I'll keep you in my mind
Thirteen years on this street
And I'm carrying it
To that small-town sky
(I'm carrying you
To that small-town sky)