Tangerine - Safe To Say

I once thought that spring meant growing

Where the winters were stark

And the summers hot

I once felt like blooming made up

For a lack of growth

In all of the things I’m not

I set a trap under a tree

To catch the good in me that wants to leave

Let the worst in

Take the best out

Like a cocoon

It’s true that I missed you

I felt that I was never built to fold

So I sit and I watch as my father gets old

And his hair turns grey

More and more each day

I’m seeing graves in the ways that I’m losing friends

And I don’t want to make belief

Or to pretend that’s how it goes

So I’m told

Could you crease and fold

I set a trap under a tree

To catch the good in me that wants to leave

Let the worst in

Take the best out

Like a cocoon

You can bloom

When the worst is in

Take the best things out

Because you know it’s true

That I missed you

Yeah, I missed you