Wishin’ We Were Grown

Verse 1

Back before the world got loud
Before bills and broken dreams weighed us down
It was me and Billy and David too
Three wild boys with nothing to lose

Runnin’ barefoot through the summer heat
BMX tires flyin’ down old back streets
Stayin’ up all night talkin’ big
Swearin’ one day we’d finally live

We couldn’t wait to grow up fast
Never knew those days would never last

Pre-Chorus

Back then we thought freedom
Was somewhere down the line
Now I’d give anything
Just to freeze one moment in time

Chorus

We were wishin’ we were grown
Dreamin’ ‘bout trucks and gettin’ out on our own
Back when the world was just three boys and a road
Now one’s in heaven… and one feels too far gone

Funny how time keeps movin’ on
Turnin’ memories into ghosts we don’t call
Now I’d trade every mile I’ve known
Just to go back to wishin’ we were grown

Verse 2

David never made it out alive
Drunk driver took him one Friday night
Still remember standin’ in that rain
Too young to understand that kind of pain

Billy went to another school
Life got busy like life always do
Years rolled by like a runaway train
Till Facebook brought his name back again

Saw that message light up my phone
But somehow I just stared too long

Pre-Chorus

Ain’t it strange how silence
Can grow between old friends
Till you don’t know where to start
Or how to begin again

Chorus

We were wishin’ we were grown
Dreamin’ ‘bout trucks and gettin’ out on our own
Back when the world was just three boys and a road
Now one’s in heaven… and one feels too far gone

Funny how time keeps movin’ on
Turnin’ memories into ghosts we don’t call
Now I’d trade every mile I’ve known
Just to go back to wishin’ we were grown

Bridge

Billy found me on Facebook
Said “Man it’s been too long”
I read those words a hundred times
But never knew what to say back on my own

One friend stolen by the whiskey
One almost lost by time
And here I am still chasin’ pieces
Of a life we left behind

Final Chorus

Yeah we were wishin’ we were grown
Thinkin’ life was somewhere farther down the road
But the best parts of my whole life
Were those nights we never wanted to go home

Now I hear those echoes callin’
Through every memory I still hold
And maybe it ain’t too late
To call an old friend home

Yeah maybe it ain’t too late
To stop wishin’ we were grown