Google Translate / Poppies

You took Spanish in high school, but I took French So when you're tired and delirious at almost 2am You type sentences into Google Translate And then you send them to me "Je pense que Lea est tres jolie" I don't think you know just how much it means to me To watch you try to call me pretty In a language I know that you can't speak You told me you didn't remember sh*t from Spanish class You didn't know how you passed but you did So even if I wanted to call you pretty back in your high school Foreign language neither one of us would know what I said So I'll stick to French Je pense que tu es tres jolie aussi I think you're pretty too In a language that you still don't speak Then I said Je t'aime Je t'aime Je t'aime Over and over again A confession in French Because I knew you wouldn't know what it meant I know that you don't fall as easily as I do So I won't press my luck, and say it in words you'll understand I'm too scared that if I tell you I love you Te Amo, I'd never get to hear you call me tres jolie again You took spanish in high school, but I took french I'm in college now and it's been four years since then But I knew exactly what you said when you had sent "Je pense que Lea est tres jolie", you copied and you pasted But it meant everything to me To watch you try to call me pretty in a language you can't speak I almost packed that painting I made I wasn't sure if I could bring myself to throw it away But I didn't then it would sit in the closet at my new house The same way that it did in my old apartment In the dark and face down Poppies are my favorite they burn red just like you I know that you hate flowers I thought I could convince you not to If you saw the time it took Read that painting like your favorite book They both die in the end, and I guess what we had did too The background is colored with a poem you wrote No painting of poppies could ever be as perfect Or as pretty as the words You spoke to me like at 2am, translating your sentences Do you still think I'm tres jolie Now that you just want to be friends?