You Ain't That Young Kid - Hamilton Leithauser, ROSTAM

On the first night in June

In a very crowded room

The band was going on

When you told me we were done

So I couldn’t play that song

Cause I wrote it about you

Yeah it always seems to come back to you

But I don’t have to tell you

Cause you’ve heard it all by now

I’m just one single voice in a choir

You won’t hear me anymore

Just a bassist thumbing a tune

But that rumble reminds me of you

All the flash, all the fire

All the foggy drinks perspired

We were tucked into a booth

In a far corner of the room

And the music is loud

And it’s just bringing me down

Cause I know that I lost you

The parking lot was dark

And I walked out of the bar

Found some folks hanging around

And we’re on some highway now

And the windows are down

And I never felt so sad

So I just tried not to think about you

Oh the final spot of sunlight

Is dying on the dash

On some way too long road with some way too young folks

If the man that you knew

Honestly wasn’t me

Tell me honey: who could that be?

There’s a letter I wrote

That I’ll never send

Where I admit my weakness

And I ask to see you again

Yeah I heard you were sorry

By someone you call a friend

In a letter I wrote

That I’ll never send

Cause there’s ash in my heart

Where I used to burn

The young voices have vanished

The old whispers return

But there’s no one to hurt me

And there’s no one to hurt

Cause there’s ash in my heart

Where I used to burn

Pictures of us dancing

From a lifetime, a lifetime ago

You in a green dress and I in a tweed vest

In a blurry gang of ghosts

Pictures of us dancing

From a thousand years ago

Late enough to kiss you

Still too early to go