I've Never Written a Song About a Boy

There’s an old video on my mom’s phone

I must have been six or maybe seven years old

Telling her there’s no way in hell I’m getting married

You’re gonna have to drag me down the aisle"

I have memories of sitting at the TV

Thinking none of my friends think like me

But they sure seem silly while they crush on the boys on screen

I must have written five hundred songs

Have callouses to prove it,

Just me and the music

But something always just felt wrong

Words without a tune

A wedding with a groom

Then I realized:

I’ve never written one song about a boy.

Seven thirteen walking with my friends down the hallway

They’re talking’bout the dance on Friday

Wondering which boy will ask them

But I don’t even wanna go

And at sixteen I’m wondering why

I hate the movies where some guy sleep some girls off her feet

But somewhere deep done

I think I know

Cuz I must’ve written five hundred songs

Have callouses to prove it,

Just me and the music

But something always just felt wrong

Words without a tune

A wedding with a groom

Then I realized:

I’ve never written one song about a boy

And ohoo the world feels brighter now

I’m almost twenty

And ohoho the world looks brighter now

Now that I’m happy

And my parents say it’s nice to watch me look so free

And I think that I’m finally me

I must’ve written five hundred songs

Have callouses to prove it,

Just me and the music

But something always just felt wrong

Words without a tune

A wedding with a groom

Then I realized:

I’ve never written one song about a boy.