Coming Of Age

Your face in fluorescent looks different in the daylight

Like, was it a love affair or just a lot of late nights?

Like, you had the speaking parts, but I guess I was the playwright

Oh, oh-oh

I couldn't escape you like the airwaves of the bass line

And I couldn't erase you like a tattoo on my waistline

And if it was a first kiss, how come it felt like a snake bite?

Oh, oh-whoa-oh

I wish I would've seen it sooner

Why did it take me (hey, hey, hey)

Ages to say it? (Hey, hey, hey)

I wasn't your cliché

Oh no, this is my coming of age (age)

Oh, oh, my coming of age

Oh, oh, my coming of age

I'm quarrying new ground, and I'm burning all your CDs

Baby, I'm the Iliad, of course you couldn't read me

So, I'll leave you behind, but that don't mean it's easy

Oh, oh-oh (ah, ah, ah)

I wish I would've seen it sooner

Why did it take me (hey, hey, hey)

Ages to say it? (Hey, hey, hey)

I wasn't your cliché

Oh no, this is my coming of age

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I send my silence away

Printing my blood on the page

You stole my love and I paid

But you couldn't keep what you couldn't take

I know I made you the big star (made you the big star)

I let you butcher my big heart (I let you butcher my big heart)

But it's my song and my stage (but it's my song and my stage)

And it's my coming of age, hey

Why did it take me (hey, hey, hey)

Ages to say it? (Hey, hey, hey)

I wasn't your cliché

Oh, no, this is my coming of age

I wish I could've seen it, god

I wish I could've seen it, god

I wish I could've seen it, god

God, I wish that I could've seen it, god