Nineteen and Aimless

Astride the divide

Between childhood and lies

Mischaracterised

Romantic in retrospect

Twenty surrogate sons

A hundred ten in the summertime

All I knew about life

Was a handful of water

Forgetting the line

between action and consequence

Parsing my place between

fate and happenstance

After a love

in which I was so shameless

Nineteen and aimless

nineteen and aimless

Trip down the stairs

It's not sneaking when no one cares

Counting on Claire

And basking in misery

Forgetting the line

between action and consequence

Parsing my place between

fate and happenstance

After a love

in which I was so shameless

Nineteen and aimless

nineteen and aimless

Come with me

Bathe in memory

Didn't know who to be

But I knew I wasn't blameless

Forgetting the line

between action and consequence

Parsing my place between

fate and happenstance

After a love

In which I was so shameless

Nineteen and aimless

nineteen and aimless

Before wine

became a close acquaintance

Before my college band

tried to get famous

After a love

in which I was so shameless

Nineteen and aimless

nineteen and aimless