I remember it well

Feeling awkward as hell

In a teenage conversation

We were rocking The Strokes

Then I was meeting your folks

Trying to pass that initiation

We never called it a date

But baby I couldn't wait

To see if we had the same affections

That summer down by the lake

We were raising the stakes

To see if we'd make the same confessions



And I'm slower than most on the uptake

Forever in debt to the one day



When the lights came on and I got it

It only took me a New York minute to spot it

I knew it the second I saw it

You were everything that I didn't know I wanted



I was ready to blow all of my student loans

For the drive those winter weekends

You would listen to all of my shitty songs

About a guy with conflicted feelings

I remember the day that I drove away

When you said that we needed distance

I spent the next 3 years trying to not appear

Like a half of me was missing



And I'm slower than most on the uptake

Forever in debt to the one day...



When the lights cam on and I got it

It only took me a New York minute to spot it

I knew it the second I saw it

You were everything that I didn't know I wanted



Sometimes the best things in life only come around

When the rest of it's not quite working out

And I'd do it again for a shot at the end game

Girl that's why I was holding out



One day the lights cam on and I got it

It only took me a New York minute to spot it

I knew it the second I saw it

You were everything that I didn't know I wanted