Dried Up

Dried Up
Hang dog you sitting
And counting nameless stars
And when you look down
You're beginning to fall away
You dried up like an august creekbed
I mounted in an album
With some photos of your summer friends
I can't tell what the note on the back said
You're moving like a poem
And it hurts to see you going

I recall the smell of summer
On your skin
We were seventeen
And everything was pounding
And it wouldn't stop
It's hard to put to words
What I was thinking then
I don't know, we were alive or something
Browned off sitting amidst the endless cars
And when you stall out
They're beginning to pull away
You dried up like an august creekbed
I mounted in an album
With some photos of your summer friends
I can't tell what the note on the back said
You're moving like a poem
And it hurts to see you going
I remember licking ice cream
Off your chin
We were seventeen
And everything was pounding
And it wouldn't stop
It's hard to put to words
What I was thinking then
I don't know, we were in love or something
I recall the smell of summer on your skin
We were seventeen and everything was pounding
And it wouldn't stop
It's hard to put to words
What I was thinking then
I don't know, we were alive or something