Astride the divide
Between childhood and lies
Mischaracterized
Romantic in retrospect

Twenty surrogate sons
A hundred ten in the summertime
All I knew about life
Was a handful of water

Forgetting the line between action and consequence
Parsing my place between fate and happenstance
After a love in which I was so shameless
Nineteen and aimless, nineteen and aimless

Trip down the stairs
It’s not sneaking when no one cares
Counting on Claire
And basking in misery

Forgetting the line between action and consequence
Parsing my place between fate and happenstance
After a love in which I was so shameless
Nineteen and aimless, nineteen and aimless

Come with me
Bathe in memory
I didn’t know who to be
But I knew I wasn’t blameless

Forgetting the line between action and consequence
Parsing my place between fate and happenstance
After a love in which I was so shameless
Nineteen and aimless, nineteen and aimless

Before Wine became a close acquaintance
Before my college bands tried to get famous
But after a love in which I was so shameless
Nineteen and aimless, nineteen and aimless