Anything Can Be Left Behind

[Verse 1]
Grass-stained hands
Milk mustache
Cheap sunglasses
Backwards hats
Skating in the street
Velcro shoes
Everything to gain
Nothing to lose

[Verse 2]
Boy, Robert
We got fat
You have a kid
I’ve never met
Same age as we were
When I moved
When I cried and cried
“What will we do?”

[Chorus]
Old house new house
Red car white car
Trees with pink flowers
Trees with none at all
Everything’s before us
Surging and expanding
Anything
Anything can be left behind

[Verse 3]
Our shit jobs
In those days
You sold paper
I spread mayo
On sandwiches
“Chips or Fries?”
The tips were lousy
That’s no surprise
Sandy said
You quit school
IT training
Sounded cool
I was in Ohio
Jumped around
Made a lot of friends
We’re elsewhere now

[Chorus]
Old house new house
Blue car gray car
Trees with red berries
Trees with none at all
Everything’s before us
Surging and expanding
Anything
Anything can be left behind

[Verse 4]
I’m engaged
To be wed
Our apartment
Fits a bed
A couch and TV
Christmas lights
Way too many books
Not enough time
We make plans
How ‘bout you?
Job still suck?
Our’s do too
We’re getting older
Serious
Fixated on the news
Delirious

[Chorus]
Old house new house
Green car black car
Trees bending in the wind
Trees getting blown over
Everything’s before us
Surging and expanding
Anything
Anything can be left behind