In a crowded room of fickle friends

My life felt like two bookends

And every story in the middle had led me to tonight

A leather jacket talking off the ear

Of a girl I loved in my sophomore year

And then I hypocritically ask if she remembers my my name

What if I could hold you without feeling this doubt?

Maybe that's what love is all about

Oh Ocoee when you held me in your rushing waters

Tolerate the symptoms of the sins of the father

Something wouldn't let you open up your heart

When I told you I was changing for the better

Every summer feeling older with your lonely loose ends

When you moved to town how everyone was a new kid

Roses down your dress on a wedding weekend

Lovely as you're floating down the river

Thanksgiving you were spoutin' advice

Like don't ever take for granted being alive

Judy knows my secrets just by looking into my eyes

And if you focus on my darkest sides

Well you sell short my signs of light

I am a waiting room magazine you won't need me forever

Isn't being an open book commendable without

Everything I've ever thought about?

Oh Ocoee when you held me in your rushing waters

Tolerate the symptoms of the sins of the father

Something wouldn't let you open up your heart

When I told you I was changing for the better

Every summer feeling older with your lonely loose ends

When you moved to town how everyone was a new kid

Roses down your dress on a wedding weekend

Lovely as you're floating down the river

Oh Ocoee when you held me in your rushing waters

Tolerate the symptoms of the sins of the father

Something wouldn't let you open up your heart

When I told you I was changing for the better

Every summer feeling older with your lonely loose ends

When you moved to town how everyone was a new kid

Roses down your dress on a wedding weekend

Lovely as you're floating down the river

Oh Ocoee when you held me in your rushing waters

Tolerate the symptoms of the sins of the father

Something wouldn't let you open up your heart

When I told you I was changing for the better

Every summer feeling older with your lonely loose ends

When you moved to town how everyone was a new kid

Roses down your dress on a wedding weekend

Lovely as you're floating down the river