Broke Kid Lyrics

When the days were still unscripted

When the nights had open ends

We were young and optimistic

Wanted security, up until the moment that we got it

But you loved me with dust in my pocket

You loved me with nothing in my wallet

But a Blockbuster card and a ballpoint pen

Just barely cash enough to square away the rent

But you loved me then

The broke kid

We were raised on different stations

But the songs came out the same

When it's two for one domestics

Arm in arm Deep Ellum days

But there's barometric pressures

For a while you just dismiss

Speakers get neglected

Til the highs become the mids

It's a rough mix but

You loved me with dust in my pocket

You loved me with nothing in my wallet

Just a check from a grocery on Mockingbird Lane

Where I butchered the jokes, and you laughed anyway

'Cause you loved me then

I was the broke kid, who fell in love mid-

Summer with a girl before the world upended

I was trying to get right, I was trying to be something

One ugly night, when the kids got broken

I didn't save those pictures

But I see them anyway

Now my downtime's nonexistent

But the money's okay

It was such a bad trade

You loved me with dust in my pocket

You loved me with nothing in my wallet

You with that dumb song by Morris Day

Now when it comes on, I let the radio play

'Cause you loved me then

The broke kid