Young Skins

[Verse 1]
Why's it so hard to go, so hard to leave?
To pass on the ghost, to give up the grief?
You're afraid if you do, it'll never stop haunting you
But sadness is a gift
And someone out there needs it more than you
So let it go, when it dies like the autumn leaves
And the more you see, the more you'll see that there's more to see
In mosquito bite summers when our dead moon flesh
Took the shapes of all the states we hadn't been to yet
The tattooed trees on your arms rеach for me now
You say the lowest point in lifе was at the peak of your house
And all the heroes that we worshipped, they took our trust
'Cause they were characters with flaws just like us
What we talk about now is who we want to be later
While the sunlight sneaks out the window like a teenager
In your childhood bedroom covered in these pages
Looking for the key to lift you up like B major
We shouldn't talk about life like it ends, it just is
I made a list of all the ways to cheat death
And the only one I came up with is "Just live"
And give it all that you've got to give
Young skins

[Chorus]
We're just old souls in young skins
We wait our whole lives to be something
And when our time comes, we won't run then
We don't need to meet our heroes, we become them
And we're just old souls in young skins
We wait our whole lives to be something
And we'll remember what we once said
We don't need to meet our heroes, we become them
Young skins
Old souls, young skins
Old souls, young skins
Old souls, young skins

[Verse 2]
The best years of my life
Flashing by me every night like a spaceship
I should be on tour, but I'm here going through stages
Took my album names and I put 'em on a bracelet
So they can hold me down when I'm weightless
And when my parents broke up, I learned that I could shapeshift
I would bounce and bounce
From house to house and I would change skin
No wonder why me and Skinny Atlas still act like
Kids below the stairs in his basement
'Cause maybe we weren't meant to be
The great American novel characters
That we always thought we'd be by 22, by 23, by 24
I'm still sleeping on the same studio floor
And maybe we weren't meant to be
The Bob Dylans of our neighborhoods
The Jay-Zs of our subway lines
And we're just that: the same people as before
Tragedies, regular, unremarkable, flawed, or maybe

[Chorus]
We're just old souls in young skins
We wait our whole lives to be something
And when our time comes, we won't run then
We don't need to meet our heroes, we become them
And we're just old souls in young skins
We wait our whole lives to be something
And we'll remember what we once said
We don't need to meet our heroes, we become them
Young skins
Young skins
Young skins
Old souls, young skins
Old souls, young skins
Old souls, young skins

[Outro]
Remember that the stars can't bring back time
They're just holes that we poked in this big black sky
So when I look up I can see straight into someone else's galaxy
And realize we're not that old in our young skins
Remind me that the stars can't bring back time
They're just holes that we poked in this big black sky
So when I look up I can see straight into someone else's galaxy
And realize we're not that old in our young skins