Ahead Of My Time

from Any Prior Self by State Forest

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It’s been forever; we have plans for dinner some night after work
And we talk about money and how everybody has lunged into life headfirst
you asked “do you wanna eat here or back at my place?
Here’s loud and crowded and all of my roommates
are either out with their boyfriends or stuck working late”

There’s a bubble in the vinyl floor that the door scrapes on when it closes
The smell of new paint, they hung a new doorway
“Seems you're moving up in this world!”
You put the brown paper bag on the island as I look around
And poured two tall glasses of water - said go sit down
“Before I come in Ben, can I get you anything else?”

It feels these interactions hardly seem worth it to you
Keeping me close. Keep keeping me close

After we ate, we moved the conversation to your room
And you fly out in the morning and you're mostly ready, still there’s a few things left to do
I comment about I miss this mattress pad and
You laughed and said “yours was never really that bad”
I guess we’re clearly still comfortable enough for that

Found our eyelids dropping - I was scared to death of that
because when I feel safe enough to sleep, I’m strung out when I’m walking back
I turned my head over and opened my eyes, feel my body split and pulled to two sides
It was in that moment I realized you were simply ahead of my time

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from Any Prior Self, released August 4, 2020

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