Girls Once

Five foot ten and honey hair

I’d recognize her anywhere

Smiling from the corner

Of that cul-de-sac

Helen in the driver’s seat

Yells perfectly without a beat

Gwyn get in the back

And I’m in shotgun

I’m scrolling through the radio

We still listen to the radio

Seven empty miles to the lake

It’s too cold to jump in

But we’ll sit and watch the waves

Open my eyes and somehow

Five years have flown right by

I’m in my new apartment

Pouring a glass of wine

Don’t get me wrong

I don’t hate getting older

Time made me strong

And leaving made me bolder

I’m proud of the woman I’ve become

But those girls and I were just girls once

Dina calls me once a month

To catch up on work, life, and love

But I don’t know the

People in her stories

Haven’t seen Sophia since

Two days past last Christmas it’s

Strange I used to

See her every morning

Open my eyes and somehow

Five years have flown right by

I’m in my new apartment

Pouring a glass of wine

Don’t get me wrong

I don’t hate getting older

Time made me strong

And leaving made me bolder

I’m proud of the woman I’ve become

But those girls and I

Raised each other

On soft serve cones

And four way stop suburban roads

Hours in our basements just talking

Boys we wanted

But never kissed

The schemes we’d hatch, the dreams we’d wish

My first and only row at every unpaid coffee shop show

Open my eyes and somehow

Five years have flown right by

I’m in my new apartment

Pouring a glass of wine

Don’t get me wrong

I don’t hate getting older

Time made me strong

And leaving made me bolder

I’m proud of the woman I’ve become

But those girls and I

Those girls and I were just girls once