Car engine humming by
I hear the train whistle for the very first time
Think of that morning in the back of your truck
Ate cider donuts and I counted my luck
Riding fast over the cracking black top
Stole salt and pepper from a roadside gas stop
Drinking bad whiskey, burning sunshine
My legs on your shoulders makes everything fine

Watch your p’s they said watch your q’s
Love like that could make you come unglued
Sharper the scissors, the finer the fringe
Maybe you’re better off as friends

Back to the girls the books the lonely bed
I forget about the night that the sky turned red
Smoking in my underwear, passing out in stalls
How easy to forget how you can almost have it all

Riding the bus over the rain wet bridge
Said he’d take me out to drink if I was old enough for it
Fought in his basement to a glowing tv
His mama said she never seen one like me

Watch your p’s he said watch your q’s
Love like mine is easy to lose
He said she said is that abuse
I guess we’ll know by the size of your bruise

I am the age now that you were then
You dropped me at the airport said you’d see me again
I don’t forgive you for the way you turned mean
I guess you’re an orphan whether clean or unclean

Rain falling on sultry streets
Our lies getting tangled in the soaking sheets
No one knows what the other sees
Do you remember the best or the worst of me


We kissed in the water where the ice & fire meet
You said you’d been wanting me wet all week
Tasted like coffee, sweat, and nicotine
Bioluminescence played at our feet

I watch my p’s, I keep on my q’s
Love like mine is salt in the wound
Hotter the stove the deeper the singe
Living well is the best revenge
They tell you, living well’s the best revenge

I watch my p’s, I keep on my q’s
Love like that could make you come unglued
Sharper the scissors, the finer the fringe
And living well is still revenge
They tell you, living well’s the best revenge

We were never never never never never never gonna be friends
We were never never never never never never gonna be friends