There‘s a playground that we used to run on
The penny-drop that broke her arm
The monkey bars that you fell from
The swingset chain that stuck with my tongue
It‘s thirty below and we‘re far gone
If you plant yourself here I wouldn‘t miss you for long
But then comes the day when you leave town
I‘m back to the way I was when you weren‘t around

If you want to know what that was like
I‘ll tell you first, it was way too quiet
It rained a hundred nineteen days of the year
I spent my time falling down the stairs
I know I can‘t tie you to a leash
But something tells me you‘d go further than Greece
And then I‘ll have to figure out what to do
I‘m kind of afraid I‘m co-dependent on you

I‘m freaking out that we‘ve started breaking down
Before momentum picked up
Now all these doors are locked
The trees trick you ‘cause they‘re always standing still
If time was really racing by
You could see it when you dri