Your Innocence

Thick makeup and a tight little dress

Your mama don’t like but you wore instead

Cause you got a point to prove to yourself and friends

Your eighteen years, a little too young

To know who to trust, your heart’s on the run

With a boy who’s bringing you flowers

That cover-up is gone

Go slow with it

‘Cause where that road’s headed

Is the graveyard of something you didn’t know when you existed

And when you see him reach for his hip

You’ll hear that sound of a whispering clip

And when it’s bullets, it ain’t the death of you

Just your innocence

Slow down you crazy child

‘Cause this will take awhile

Don’t you blame it on yourself

Slow down you crazy child

‘Cause this will take awhile

Don’t you blame it on yourself

You chase the breath out your lungs

You can’t believe this day has come

He’s saying the words that’s letting you know he’s so done

Make or break your way down the bedroom hall

But the weight of his words they bring you to fall

Leaving you on the floor thinking it’s your fault

Go slow with it

Let some time heal ya

‘Cause the wounds dry up and remind you to never stop leaving

You’ll bounce back from your lowest of lows

You’ll rise above every heartbreak you’ve thrown

Looking back you’ll learn from your past

It was just your innocence

Slow down you crazy child

‘Cause this will take awhile

Don’t you blame it on yourself

Slow down you crazy child

‘Cause this will take awhile

Don’t you blame it on yourself

You will grow and you will change

You’ll discover yourself in beautiful ways

The pain will go but you will remain

With strength that flows like a poem right through your veins

Oh-ohhh

Slow down you crazy child

‘Cause this will take awhile

Don’t you blame it on yourself

Slow down you crazy child

‘Cause this will take awhile

Don’t you blame it on yourself

Oh no

Oh it was just your innocence