you took your brownie hawkeye and pointed it up at the sky you just let the shutter fly all of your friends still wonder why you were never good with a goodbye you just turned your back and let it slide i try to remember the words i once heard you spoke them with courage you never deserved all of that that they let you carry few were the firsts for sure you were the first to be married stars went wheeling across the sky silloetted the tops of the bending pines summer was high we were storming inside the morning glories bloomed by moonlight we get that picture in your mind cause of all the smoke in our eyes i took a piss on the wall out back of the mall you drank the last of the sherri green grass stains on your bare feet on the dash of your mother s chevy i guess it was hard to quit which you won t admit to beginning we vamped from shoulder to shoulder we ll never grow up we just got older i chewed a hole right through my heart from the very start anticipating the myth of you