From the recording The Slants
Lyrics
Remember counting the days
Remember grasping for moments
Freedom was a digit away
Remember thinking the world
Closed up on you like an eyelet
Peering through seeing proof
Remember when you were teenage
Staring up at the ceiling
Emotions like a runaway train
Remember making the promise
To yourself not to be cautious
Flawless in wondering
The watchful eyes they are misjudged
One breath, you’re on the cusp
You were eighteen, now you’re twenty one
Drew their lines then they changed their minds
You were eighteen, now you’re twenty one
Housed by rules now you're free to run
Remember when people told you
That you can’t be dreaming
The present luxuries fading
Like the air that you're breathing
Remember when you were three
Filling your lung without question
The first time that you fell in the sea
And could you ever imagine
If they board up the ocean
The cracks come immediately
The watchful eyes they are misjudged
One breath, you’re on the cusp
You were eighteen, now you’re twenty one
Drew their lines then they changed their minds
You were eighteen, now you’re twenty one
Housed by rules now you're free to run
The watchful eyes they are misjudged
One breath, you’re on the cusp
You were eighteen, now you’re twenty one
Drew their lines then they changed their minds
You were eighteen, now you’re twenty one
Housed by rules now you're free to run