December Friend

Skin getting thicker darkness convenes
Film in my head continues to stream
On the promenade we were celebrities
Kids taking pictures for that magazine
Feels like a foggy dream

I wish I could see who you’ll be when I’m gone when I’m gone
I wish I could see who you’ll be when I’m gone when I’m gone

Phone calls change us say not so fast
Things aren’t that easy not meant to last
You left me Paris somehow you didn’t collapse
I read about murder I bought cigarettes
I was a nervous wreck

I wish he could see who we are he’d be proud he’d be proud
I wish he could see who we are he’d be smiling in the stars

I dreamt I was younger rubbing your back
We made up stories about a racetrack
Counted your nicknames in a thunderstorm
You fell asleep holding my arm
We carry old pictures like petty thieves
Tuck em in spaces where they can’t leave
Some are of morning some make us numb
Some are more sacred but we hold every one

So we can be who we are every flower every scar
So we can be who we are every flower every scar
Want you to be who you are every flower every scar
Want us to see who we are every flower every scar