Highlight of my seventeen

You turned my summer daze to a dream

You got misfortuned history

Which I promised I would never repeat

Cause you put some joy on my receipt

Now I pay in nights devoid of sleep

Who'd have known our time would fleet

Cause darling I tried my best at giving

Seems my efforts weren’t sufficient

To drown the sorrow

That holds you

Still holds you down

When I say I don't know

I mean I don't understand

Haven’t been through what you have

But I still try to help

Highlight of my seventeen

You don't know how much you started to mean

With post-work words across my screen

You left me now you leave me unseen

Cause my days have been so painful generally

But it's nothing on what you've been through

I only wished you no more grief

And you attempted not to cry

But you still wouldn't let me try

To drown the sorrow

That holds you

Still holds you down

When I say I don't know

I mean I don't understand

Haven't been through what you have

But I still try to help

And now at night I lie on my right side

Imagining you’re still there

Got to police the distractions in my mind

It’s still following you upstairs

The reservations in your intonations

Girl I knew they were always there

Despite how I tried

Despite how I cared