8 Years Old Lyrics by Ben Lee

8 Years Old Lyrics

    Eight years old
    I was in love with a girl
    Eight years old
    My only love meant the world
    We'd hang out
    Play catch and kiss at lunch time
    I was young she was something to call mine
    I'd be lying if i said i was not
    Devastated and broken when she
    Opened my hand slid hers in
    Then walked away

    It was bad
    The only eight year old kid suicidal
    In the school
    Convinced i was down to survival
    Melodramatic in my usual way
    I was sure that the whole world would end
    When the girl left that day
    And it did

    Seventeen years old
    Riding home on the bus
    Seventeen
    Looking for someone to trust
    The seat next to me
    Sits down a girl i once loved
    She looks at me
    And then i remember her touch
    She smiles
    Then touches my knee
    All of the sudden i'm eight years old not seventeen
    Again

    Here's this girl
    I was in love, i was eight
    Almost a decade later
    A decade too late
    So she smiles
    Asks me "so how you been?"
    Then gives me her number to go out sometime this weekend
    My head is spinning it's all too surreal
    Deja vu doesn't begin to describe how i feel
    So i laugh
    There's nothing to say
    Maybe everything in my life's gonna end up this way

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