State of the Heart

You were standing at the bathroom sink

Crying and yelling at me

For a second it was like we were in a

Coming of age movie

But who the hell are we?

Wandering around this big city

Acting like we got our lives together

Trying to find ourselves

In the letters of dead poets

Making friends with the cynics

In rent controlled apartments

Singing The National

And tellin' each other secrets

Like nobody's ever lived this

Before

Young in the state of the heart

Fighting with time so we take shots in the dark

And it feels alright 'cause this mess is ours

Young in the state of the heart

Yeah, we run fast 'cause the cars don't start

And we make up for what we don’t got

We know we are

Young in the state of the—

Slept out on the fire escape

That summer when the A/C gave

You said to pretend it was winter

But honey I was happy

To be just like us

Two kids dreaming while the metal rusts

Sure felt good to be lost together

Just trying to find ourselves

In the letters of dead poets

Making friends with the cynics

In rent controlled apartments

Singing The National

And tellin' each other secrets

Like nobody’s ever lived this

Before

Young in the state of the heart

Fighting with time so we take shots in the dark

And it feels alright 'cause this mess is ours

Young in the state of the heart

Yeah, we run fast 'cause the cars don't start

And we make up for what we don’t got

We know we are

Young in the state of the heart

Young in the state of the heart

Contemplated science, space and religion

Contemplated silence, space, how it all fits

Yeah, we know our place, call us the misfits

But we're livin'

Young in the state of the heart

Young in the state of the heart

Fighting the time so we take shots in the dark

And it feels alright 'cause this mess is ours

Young in the state of the heart

Fighting with time so we take shots in the dark

(And it feels alright 'cause this mess is ours)

This mess is ours

Young in the state of the heart