The Whole Time Lyrics

Summer after freshman year you stop shaving your legs

Give up eating chicken and you pierce your cartilage

I go skinny dipping after midnight in the pond

Don't make out the details in the dark, just carry on

Seven odd years later in the city where we'll meet

You'll take off your glasses and I'll hold your face so sweet

We'll sit on the floor and laugh at all our tangled limbs

I will wonder why it took so long to just give in

And be who I was

Who I was the whole time

All I'll take from college is it's never either or

But I'll still need to feel it out firsthand before I'm sure

You will draw a map of all the moments that make sense

Lose the piece of paper but hold on to where you've been

Cause it's who you were

Who you were the whole time

When I come home to myself I've fixed the place up nice

Kept the record cabinet stocked and hung the colored lights

And all our chosen family are waiting in the wings

Not to shout "surprise" but just to pull us in and sing

That it's who I was

Who I was the whole time

And it's who you were

Who you were the whole time

And it's who we were

Who we were

Who we were the whole time