Dear Stranger
If you hear this and think it could be about you
Please don't stop listening
I'm homeward bound and if I have found you
Then it must have been meant to be
Take each word that is more than silence
And place it inside parentheses
You'll know what to do soon enough
Dear Stranger
I used to be told by the boy that was in love with me
That I had the talent to keep him on the phone for 3 hours
Longer than he planned to be
It wasn't until I would hang up that
I would realize that it wasn't talent
But complete fascination with the sound of our voices
Intertwining between two states
And we belief we were closer than we were
That kept us up all night
He and I were the kind of bad dreams worth having
Unforgettable with the kind of desire to find out
How it would have ended if we hadn't woken up when we did
I'm not saying I'm still in love with him
I just don't believe I'd be able to
Stop myself if I found him all over again
Dear Stranger
We were pipelines fumbling chances of locked eyes
Just inches away from all that we could breathe
And I knew I liked it too much cuz I
Couldn't pull my face out of a smile for two weeks
I keep seeing you in the faces of boys who look nothing like you
When I'm riding subways but it'd been worth it every time
For the eighth of a second roller coaster ride
My heart gets to go on
It's like a chance meeting with Disney World
And I don't even care that the palm trees are bare
In this time of year in Boston
Were not in love yet
But I'm pulling for the fact that it could should might has to happen
So you'll know my promises are worn on my hands like lifelines
Permanent
Pull you up into the sky and made you
Into a constellation that spells taken
So that every girl that laughed at your jokes would know that
You laughed at my jokes and
I don't want the best
I just need what can pull me out of the worst
So we can exist as storm clouds on dry summer nights
Furious
Dear Stranger
I've been crossing out the word sorry
From every dictionary that I could find
Since the age of ten
And I'm not gonna stop
Because I wear my emotions on my sleeve
Piece me together with patches of the three hour timeouts
And the three minutes that will lapse before we met
I'll keep breathing for you
Even when you don't want me to
Dear Stranger
Daylight
We haven't met yet
But when we do our smiles will be so close
We'll believe they're from the same lightsource
And that's the way I like it