Bicycle

I threw my bike away
When I was ten years old
And on halloween the year I was eleven
I left home

Told my parents I was leaving
They helped me pack my bags
My mother walked me out the door
Thought I'd never see them again

Til I was thirteen
And I came back
On christmas eve at my cousins house
I had a heart attack

I had bruises and cuts
On my legs and on my arms
I had seen a lot in the time I was away
I had been dealt a lot of harm

So when I turned fifteen
And I set out again
But this time I was angry
I wanted revenge

I wanted everyone
To feel what I had felt
So I set everything on fire
To deal what I had been dealt

But suddenly when I was seventeen
I fell in love
I tried to build something from the ashes
But I had burned way too much

So now I sit, alone
On the top of the world
And I watch the ashes move
In the wind and whirl

If I could go back to eleven
If I could go back to ten
I'd just wanna ride my bicycle
Around my neighborhood again