A MASTERPIECE

                                                from the vault.

ronan

i remember your bare feet down the hallway

i remember your little laugh

i love you to the moon and back

i remember your blue eyes looking into mine

i can still feel you holding my hand

come on, baby, with me

we’re gonna fly away from here

you were my best four years

i remember the drive home

the blind hope turned to crying and screaming

no one knows what to say

better man

i know i’m probably better off on my own

i see the permanent damage you did to me

i just wish i could forget when it was magic

i wish it wasn’t 4 am

you know you had to do it

the bravest thing i ever did was run

sometimes in the middle of the night i can feel you walk in

i just miss you

i just wish you were a better man

it was always on your terms

i waited on every careless word hoping they might turn sweet again

i wonder what we would have become if you were a better man

you would’ve been the one if you were a better man

nothin’ new

they tell you while you’re young, go out and have your fun

she looks like she’s been through it

what will become of me once i’ve lost my novelty?

i’ve had too much to drink tonight

will you still want me when i’m nothing new?

my cheeks are growing tired from turning red and faking smiles

we’re only biding time until i lose your attention

babe

what about your promises?

what a shame

didn’t wanna be the one that got away

you broke the sweetest promise that you ever should have made

you said no one else

how could you do this babe?

you really blew this babe

this is the last time i’ll ever call you babe

it’s strange how your face doesn’t look so innocent

your secret has its consequence and that’s on you babe

i hate that because of you i can’t love you

i break down every time you call

message in a bottle

i know that you like me

it’s kinda frightening standing here waiting

now you’re so far away

i’m reaching for you

you could be the one that i love

i could be the one that you dream of

you could be the one that i keep

i can be the reason you can’t sleep at night

how is it in london?

you could be the one that i love

forever winter

3 am and i’m still awake

i’ll bet you’re just fine

i’ll bet your friends tell you she’s better than me

i tried to fit in with your upper-crust circles

you realized i’m harder to forget that i was to leave

i bet you think of me

you grew up in a silver-spoon gated community

i was raised on a farm

you can’t help who you fall for

you said we’re too different

run

i’ll bring the car around

we shouldn’t be in this town

i’ll wait for you

run like you’d run from the law

darling let’s run

i’ll sing like no one cares

i could see this view a hundred times

i’ll hold onto you while we run

the very first night

i wish i could fly

i’d pick you up and we’d go back in time

i miss you

i miss you like it was the very first night

my friends all say they know everything i’m going through

they don’t know about the night in the hotel

they don’t know how much i miss you

we never saw it coming

we broke the status quo then we broke each other’s hearts

no one knows about the words that we whisper

all too well ( ten minute version )

something about it felt like home somehow

i left my scarf there

i can picture it after all these days

that magic’s not here no more

i might be okay but i’m not fine at all

you almost ran the red

you almost ran the red cause you were looking over at me

i remember it all too well

you used to be a little kid with glasses and a twin sized bed

you taught me about your past thinking your future was me

you never called it what it was

all i felt was shame

there was nothing else i could do

i forget about you long enough to forget why i needed to

there we are again, when nobody had to know

you kept me like a secret, but i kept you like an oath

we’d swear to remember it all too well

maybe we got lost in translation

maybe i asked for too much

maybe this thing was a masterpiece ‘til you tore it all up

you call me up again just to break me like a promise

so casually cruel in the name of being honest

i’m a crumbled up piece of paper lying here

they say all’s well that ends well but i’m in a new hell every time you double cross my mind

you said if we had been closer in age maybe it would have been fine

it’s supposed to be fun turning twenty one

time won’t fly, it’s like i’m paralyzed by it

i’d like to be my old self again but I’m still trying to find it

it reminds you of innocence and it smells like me

you can’t get rid of it

i was never good at telling jokes, but the punch line goes: i’ll get older but your lovers stay my age

just between us, did the love affair maim you too?

i still remember the first fall of snow

from the tv show .  swearing & alcohol references present .