Look back, follow the steps

Up to where they're flying

Down here it's nothing but skin

And the waves are crashing

The waves are crashing

I blink behind shaded eyes

And try to find a way to say

I'm still the same

I've just learned to adapt

And I call it "age"

Look back, follow the years

To where it all started

We flew then, in anger and youth

And we loved each other

And believed in truth

We held our heads high

In a reckless grab to understand

Why everyone was different

Why everyone changed

X marks the pact

We swore we'd stay the same

The same, the same no matter

If we stayed together

But then you find, then you find out

You can't stay sixteen forever

Then you find, then you find out

You can't stay sixteen forever

But you try, try, try, try

To remember how to fly

And all I've done the last few months

Is try and try and try and try

To hold on to the moment

The waves are crashing

The waves are crashing

I'm warm on a beach in San Diego

Trying to accept that the moments go

They slip away, away, away

The waves are crashing

The waves are crashing