I've forgotten what fall looks like Weather wets the string and threads another week of 85 degrees While blood clots at the turnpike Bachelors wander pockets stuff with rings I'm disappearing daily to the trees The future's near I'm hoarding every penny from the street in case we're out of change Before your reappear Remind me of the life between monotonies Digging our new place to be I've created something tiny Jeopardy: what is a DMZ? A trench, a safe of light and shadow for our dreams That's right CHORUS ...And all the week spent struggling to spell sentences Like "I am here" and "We are fine" Carving out small corners of the sky for you and me Let's count up the days of our separate stories Let them count against our separation You said with conviction, "There must be time for us somewhere." I quick-clicked off the stopwatch and led you into the trees The future's here And now it's safe to settle From under here We'll block the city with our thumb It took a year But now there's room for anything So many possibilities Like weeks to spend on sentences Like "We are here" and "spin the globe" I did my best to make a little home for you and me

The questions aren't getting far as there's no sound You've never heard them before-- you sure won't now But how big would I have to be For you to finally notice me? A stargaze mystery I'm the strange satellite you see I'm way up here I'll stay up here In the palm of my hand the planet turns Places we'll never go begin to burn away In which of these slow dying stars The last call lights of closing bars Are you asleep or scared to dream? The night sings nightmare songs But follow the moonbeams And if a shadow passes through, it's just me From way up here (I'll keep you safe from far away) I'll stay up here (Just look up I'll keep you safe) I'm drifting off I'll hold you close I'm way up here (I'll keep you safe from far away) I'll stay up here (Just look up I'll keep you safe) I want you nearby I want you with me To see the world The way it looks from above

We’re midnight kids in our ride and confides We’re the loud ones stuck in cheapest seats Speak soft in leftover hours of night To the future as if it was listening Let's think about the might it might have taken A generation's best To reach from small towns into school texts But that trail's been run so much There's nothing left for us But persevere And tape together headlines Of a world beyond our means Wait for word to come from upstream Gather bread crumbs through the city Watch the ships blow out to sea We don’t have to go home yet We can lock the doors and try Diagram our distance from The perfect selves we do our best to be Until the night knows better Now, list the ways we hide from passing headlights Cause we're more broken than we seem A web of days dismissed as bad dreams Parking lots at holy hours Hide our crevices in comfort food... … and conversation Tell me how you wish you could be more How you don’t know what you’re here for (Don’t know why I’m here) How our promises feel real right now But I don’t think I’ll remember in the morning We don’t have to go home yet We can lock the doors and try Diagram our distance from The perfect selves we do our best to be Until the night knows better Come on let's drive! We don't have much time We’re midnight kids in our ride and confides We’re the loud ones stuck in the cheapest seats (We’re the loud ones… ) Speak soft in leftover hours of night To the future as if it was listening We’re midnight kids in our ride and confides We’re the loud ones stuck in cheapest seats Speak soft in leftover hours of night To the future as if it was listening We’re midnight kids playing footloose and fast Our clothes stuck to the wet paint of growing up But for tonight, the streets are where we survive With our four seat speeches and storms in teacups

Watch our history go Turned over in a game of Concentration in reverse At first, I lost sleep on your explanations Until the realization I'm not safe with you anymore CHORUS When LA finally slides into the sea We'll watch on our TVs Stay home and grieve But day by day, there's drift in the memory Morning priorities shift away from the ache And that's you and me love It's history now and that's all it ever will be I'd say a word and we'd see Venn diagrams combine and share a meaning Smile, draw and turn, they match We spent hours on names and finally found a great one for the future But you don't call it that anymore I'll pull on my side, you pull yours CHORUS History now and that's all it ever will be History now, and that's all, that's all You've got friends in the writer's room I've got friends rewriting too And they'll both convince us we're the more mature ones You're getting up and you miss me I'm getting up Guess what? In the moments right before these memories close up I will get better but enough’s enough We took our separate ways out With water round our ankles as we both looked on LA finally fell into the sea We watched on our TVs Oh God, I grieved And day by day The months mowed the memories that both of us could have kept safe in the morning hours but It'll never come back History now, and that's all you ever will be

Montana This is the last time Gather everything we're owed and we'll be gone Montana Look out the window At the shadows getting long in setting sun Follow them past town Into the deep frown of the cornfield rut we used to run I promised you my share we'd never go back there But I'd do anything To see Mom and Dad again, so Let's go home, it's been too long Don't know what we are but I know it's gone wrong Let's go home, let's finish strong Could we learn tonight what we know each dawn? Montana Where are you going? If you need to talk, why can't you talk to me? Montana You know I couldn't stop you If you leave me with the screen door swinging, doppler sirens Blue all around red – The ocean and hot lead What comfort would, “I told you so,” be Thrown at your memory? Cut in the old tree Yeah, I'd do anything just to keep you there with me CHORUS Now the streetlights Fight the moon's light for monopolies on who's seen more Don’t walk away Remember we swore we’d always get out of here But you’d rather stay Stay breaking bottles and searching the splinters for signs What’s got the best of you? Poisoned your point of view? We could still make it through But I think I’m losing you Montana Guess I've got an answer Give me all the time you can and I'll be gone