[Verse 1]
It feels like 2018 again
And the campus mall still has a bed in our shapes
And our haven was ash heap and gravel
It feels like I’m 16 again
And I can still smell the gymnasium sweat on your shirt
When I’m resting my head on your shoulder
[Pre-Chorus 1]
Just friends, I guess, I’ll have to pretend
Best friend, it’s time to let you go
[Chorus]
‘Cuz I can’t keep thinking of the campus mall like it’s home Like I can still taste the salt in the air
When I go, you’re still there
You’re still everywhere
Best friends forеver
Till forever is donе
Till I fess up and purge another rhyme from my tongue
And, oh Lord, I can’t need you in the future you know
I can’t keep calling you home
[Verse 2]
Love is a fool’s game, but I thought
There’s a different way to play it
With you, babe, it’s you, babe, I want
Three years of running into your arms
To steal the space that everyone has espied and
It’s mine then it’s mine till it’s not
[Pre-Chorus 2]
Till it’s his, I guess, I’ll have to pretend
It’s him you want
And I better be the best friend you’ve ever had when you
[Chorus]
Realize this song’s about you all along
‘Cuz I can still taste the salt in the air
When I go, you’re still there
You’re still everywhere
Best friends forever
Till forever is done
Till I fess up and purge another rhyme from my tongue
And, oh Lord, I can’t need you in the future you know
I can’t keep calling you
[Bridge]
There’s just so much shit unsaid
There’s just so much unsaid
I know you know it
Can I tell you now it’s never just been in your head?
It’s so alive and it lives inside and it grows, it grows
Desire (I desire you)
Desire (I desire you)
[Chorus]
‘Cuz I can’t keep thinking of the campus mall like it’s home
Like I can still taste the salt in the air
You’re still everywhere
Best friends forever
Till forever is done
Till I fess up and purge another rhyme from my tongue
And you’ll be married to him
And you’ll be happy with him
Will I still think of the campus mall like it’s home
When I have a wife and some kids on my own?
Will you be there like you’ve been there
For so long?
Best friends forever
Till forever is done
Can I close the chapter or will it go on?
Oh Lord, how many times have you been in my songs?
I keep calling you home
[Outro]
I can’t keep calling you home
It feels like 2018 again