Thirteen Years

Lyrics

Verse 1
Thirteen years on this corner
Same crack in the sidewalk, same bus
Graffiti on the blue brick wall
Our names carved in the rust

You and me, in that hallway
Spilling secrets on the stairs
Laughing till the guards looked twice
Like the world began right there

Chorus
Now I’m packing my life in a cardboard sky
Posters peeling, goodbye on my tongue
You’re sending me jokes but your eyes look tired
We both know the punchline’s done
Fields at the end of a stranger’s road
Are calling a girl who just feels lost inside
I grew up between traffic and sirens and dreams
Now I’m leaving them all
For the countryside

Verse 2
We planned high school like a movie
Same lockers, same late-night calls
Swore we’d hate the early mornings
Get in trouble in those halls

Mom’s mapping out the backroads
Says the air will clear my head
I stare at the tower from my window
Blinking red above the spread

Chorus
Now I’m packing my life in a cardboard sky
Ticket folded inside my hand
You’re tracing a heart on my dusty desk
Smudging it just so it won’t stand
Fields at the end of a stranger’s road
Are calling a girl who just feels lost inside
I grew up between traffic and sirens and dreams
Now I’m leaving them all
For the countryside

Bridge
Will the stars feel too close?
Will the dark feel too wide?
Who will walk me home
When the crickets sing at night?

If I call you from a quiet hill
Will you talk like nothing’s changed?
Or will the silence in between our words
Say the thing we’re scared to name?

Chorus
’Cause I’m packing our years in this cardboard sky
Every secret, every dare, every fight
You’re waving from the edge of the old school yard
Getting smaller in the light
Fields at the end of a stranger’s road
Are holding the girl who still has city eyes
I grew up between traffic and sirens and dreams
Now I’m learning to breathe
In the countryside