Objects In the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear

Dandelions rise and float like gravity defying snow

Blanket by the lake with cheap rosé

We only met a year ago

Cleaning out my summer clothes

My old roommate moved back home

Reading at the Parthenon

Driving to a funeral

I always said back then I'd run a marathon by 26

Ask when I want kids

I know there's good things looking forward but sometimes I wish

It was over and I was only looking back at it

Cried at your apartment pool

My sister's baby grew a tooth

Drinking up the bitter end

By June they'll be in Washington

Wedding presents for my friends

Detached nostalgia for my ex

Wonder if I'm out of songs

I think I'm fine to fail at this

I always said back then I'd run a marathon by 26

My aspirations waiting in hospice

I know there's good things looking forward

But sometimes I wish it was over

And I was only looking back at it

My mother says now that I live alone I have too much time to think about what I don't know

Running on empty in a Craigslist car and a full-time job and no childhood home

Falling in love was an American spirit

Quick to the light, took forever to feel it

Guess I don't really need to keep my high school yearbook

Forgot to go to Paris

Forgot to learn a language

Forgot to be a genius now I'm here, oh

I always said back then I'd run a marathon by 26

But honestly I'm already exhausted

I know there's good things looking forward

But sometimes I wish it was over It was over

It was over And I was only looking back at it