Where did our story begin?
I couldn't get out the water but never wanted to swim
I happened to see her face, I wanted it to no end
We were 17 - acquaintances who turned best friends
There was an issue
Our staring at each other would increase
Pay attention to nothing (else) when you were speaking to me
But the problem - I happened to have a relationship
Jenny's weary of us, she knew I was full of it
I tell her that it was nothing, she knew that it was a lie
She simply couldn't light the fire that I wanted inside
But Ray could
Her walking me to class, pretend playing
I'm talking to her more than the very girl I'm dating
Forbidden, the sweetest fruit of a foreign tree
Graduated high school, I'm 18
Me and Jenny soon split beecause college came knocking
But it never changed though that me and Ray was still talking
I met a whole new world but on my school breaks
I would catch a flight home because I couldn't wait
To look in her pretty eyes I didn't have to disguise
The feelings that I felt - if I'm single, I can't deny
I needed to have her now, I couldn't fake it no more
The puppy tension is higher than ever before
She said that she felt the same, we had to cut the pretend
That very winter I finally made her my girlfriend
There was an issue
I studied down in Nashville, she was still in Chicago
But distance couldn't phase us, our love would play legato
I finished the year of Uni, then I came home
We spent our first summer together
Finally the same song played in both of our ears
Experienced many things
A beautiful trip to Canada, letting me hear her sing
I wrote a new song about her she helped me make the front cover
The ultimate satisfaction of telling her that I love her
But the problem - eventually summer came to an end
I had to return to school
The hatred of what it meant
Now she was going to college up in the state of New York
Our love went back to a distance instead of her back porch
But we continued - I recently had turned 19
She left the school in New York, it was never really her scene
I shared the car with her Mom and we drove to her from the Chi
I held her hands and a darker period said bye
We took a trip to Wisconsin, I showed her Hunter S. Thompson
She showed me Lennon, McCartney, Dylan and all of her knowledge
She writes a beautiful poem and speaks with beautiful grace
My Mom had got her a Christmas stocking on that day
There was an issue
You could probably just guess
College was calling me back from a winter recess
Yeah, we dealt with distance
We were seasoned at it
She was a (unintelligible)
Her visits - we flew kites at the park like down the street from my college
My Valentine was in Nashville
I never wanted to stop it
She knew my friends and they knew her too
From all of her visits
Or maybe just because I talk about her to nearly no limit
I was a sophomore now and my degree in progression
The only thing was the come and going of Ray and depression
If something brought us together in person
Take it, I meant it
Be careful for what you wish