Field Trip Buddy

Fingers clenching the plastic handle
Of the lunchbox on the seat I saved for you
And kicking off the clumps of snow still clinging to my velcros
I wonder if you remember you said
You'd be my field trip buddy

(Oh, the places we'll find all by ourselves)
If you would be my field trip buddy
(I promise I won't tell anybody else)

Please stay together and hold hands
Our instructions before entering the symphony hall
It's not the chandelier circus that's making me nervous
Your hand playing orchestras against mine

(Oh, the places we'll find all by ourselves)
If you would be my field trip buddy
(I promise I won't tell anybody else)
I won't tell anybody else

Light going down now, and everyone
Secretly hoping they never come back on
(I hope they never come back on)
Balancing elbows you keep pressing so slowly
I can't be making this up
And the sugar plums turn to cotton candy (in my periphery)
Our foreheads so close
And right there in the back row
Forseeing a standing ovation
We promised to be each other's field trip buddy

(Oh, the places we'll find all by ourselves) (all by ourselves)
If you would be my field trip buddy
(I promise I won't tell anybody else)
I won't tell anybody else (anybody else)

(Oh, the places we'll find all by ourselves) (all by ourselves)
If you would be my field trip buddy
(I promise I won't tell anybody else)
I won't tell anybody else (I won't tell nobody else)