Carousels & Pirouettes Lyrics

Ten-thirty, New Year's Eve

You could hardly walk but you swore you'd see

The clock hit midnight

You'd kiss some old friends to mark the time

Our smiles met from across the room

The air was desperate, a closing tomb

It went unsaid but we both knew

The church bells ring

Your mother weeps

And you can't change

Where your spirit hangs

I've been spinning 'round in circles

Chasing carousels and pirouettes

Dreaming about your crooked teeth

And those days before I felt so afraid,

I know

(I know that I'm stuck in retrospection)

Where I have all night to catch you up

In some wishful place where we're both still so young

That winter break

You called and begged to see me

In your mom's apartment

I held you heaving on faded sheets

We knew exactly what it meant

But neither of us could admit

You were so much worse since summer

I said I loved you over and over

The church bells ring

Your mother weeps

And you can't change

Where your spirit hangs

I've been spinning 'round in circles

Chasing carousels and pirouettes

Dreaming about your crooked teeth

And those days before I felt so afraid,

I know

(I know that I'm stuck in retrospection)

Where I have all night to catch you up

In some wishful place where we're both still so young

But I'll hold on for just another day

And I'll kick around the stupid things you'd say

Cause these summer years and past fears

Are worth so much more when they're no longer here

So I'll hold on for just another day

And I'll kick around the beautiful things you'd say