Somebody's Girl

I still remember the heat
Like it had hands on my shoulders
Little town holding its breath
While we were trying to get older

I used to think the world would warn me
Before it took what I loved
Like clouds would spell it out for me
Or God would call from above
I was a kid with too many questions
Counting bruises on the sky
Everybody said "keep living"
Like living didn't ask me why
I kept flowers in a book
Kept names I couldn't say
Kept a summer in my chest
That never learned to age

Now I'm grown and I know
No one gets a softer door
You just lose what you lose
And still reach for something more

I was somebody's girl
Before I knew the world could break me
Barefoot in the sun
Thinking love was there to save me
Now I hold on slow
Now I kiss like time is borrowed
I still smile like a child
With a heart full of sorrow
If you love me, love me gently
I have been through worse than words
I grew up, but somewhere in the summer
I'm still somebody's girl

Somebody's girl
Somebody's girl
Still running home through the thunder
Still waiting on the world

I learned young that goodbye
Don't always close the curtain
Sometimes it leaves the light on
Just to make the dark more certain
I got good at looking normal
At the table, at the store
Laughing right on cue
While my soul slept on the floor
And I've loved a few people
Who reminded me of leaving
Held their face between my hands
Like a prayer I stopped believing

Now I'm grown and I know
Every heartbeat is a dare
So I don't waste a kiss
I don't pretend I don't care

I was somebody's girl
Before I knew the world could break me
Barefoot in the sun
Thinking love was there to save me
Now I hold on slow
Now I kiss like time is borrowed
I still smile like a child
With a heart full of sorrow
If you love me, love me gently
I have been through worse than words
I grew up, but somewhere in the summer
I'm still somebody's girl

There's a version of me
In a dress by the screen door
Asking everybody
What the leaving was for
There's a boy in my memory
There's a laugh in the trees
There's a day I keep trying
Not to fall to my knees
And I don't need saving
I just need you to stay
Not forever, not perfect
Just don't vanish today

I was somebody's girl
Before I knew the world could break me
Barefoot in the sun
Thinking love was there to save me
Now I hold on slow
Now I kiss like time is borrowed
I still smile like a child
With a heart full of sorrow
If you love me, love me gently
I have been through worse than words
I grew up, but somewhere in the summer
I'm still somebody's girl

Somebody's girl
Somebody's girl
I grew up, but somewhere in the summer
I'm still somebody's girl