We learned too soon what silence means
Between the lines, between our dreams
You held your fear like fragile glass
Afraid the truth would never last
We spoke like poets out of time
Trading scars for borrowed rhymes
Every word a quiet disguise
We were too young to be this wise
We thought the world would wait for
us But time has no such kind of trust
We were too young to be this wise
Too brave to see through all the lies
We built forever out of sand Held the sun inside our hands
Every dream we sacrificed We were too young to be this wise
We were too young to be this wise
We drew the stars on notebook spines
And called them ours a thousand times
We were too young to be this wise We were too young to be this wise
We built forever out of sand Held the sun inside our hands
And I know better.
It's your face.
I see the night we never said goodbye
We were too young to be this wise
Too lost to see the compromise We touched the sky,
we burned,
we shone
And called the ruins our own Every lesson,
every sign
To be this wise