Secret Patterns

[Verse 1]
Sometimes I write in couplets
Sometimes I write in prose
Sometimes I write in secret patterns
That nobody knows
I wrote it all down in a letter
But it never got sent
I think I burned it in my bedroom
I didn't know where you went

[Verse 2]
I squandered up my youth
And I wasted my prime
I burn the candle now at both ends
Just trying to make up some time
I wish you could have seen me back then
When I had nowhere to go
You were looking way off into the distance
I was under your nose

[Chorus]
I didn't ask for this but I'm not gonna turn it down
I gave up a long time ago with trying to figure it out
It doesn't have a thing to do with the person that I am now

[Verse 3]
Secondhand cigarette smoke
On a cold winter's day
I wore a secondhand winter coat
I felt the seconds slip away
You were the first thing that I
Thought about when I woke up today
I can't remember how long it's been
I still don't know what to say

[Chorus]
I didn't ask for this but I'm not gonna turn it down
I gave up a long time ago with trying to figure it out
But it's got everything to do with the person that I am now

[Outro]
I gave up a long time ago
I gave up a long time ago
I gave up a long time ago
I gave up a long time ago
I gave up a long time ago
I gave up a long time ago