
Beneath the Big Old Tree
I’m gonna make it to you to you to you and only you
It’s been a decade come and gone
Since I saw your eyes and I thought
That is someone I’m afraid to lose.
It came down to this before
But more often than not
I could care less about who came before.
But the hour struck 3
And you’d go home
And I’d take the bus out into the country —
I counted the minutes till I’d wake back up
And we’d be back in Mrs Austin’s classroom
It was never enough to steal your glance
I had to have your heart too.
And on that day back in 8th grade
When you kissed me on the cheek
When nobody was looking
It’s like that hall bled away
And every single last mistake
I ever made or ever would make
Melted away.
All that was left was me and you and the universe
Hand in hand — you made the blood rush right to my cheeks
I made a promise to myself that day.
I’m gonna make it to you to you to you and only you.
And now here we are 10 years later
And you’re more beautiful than any of these women that I see
Hayley Williams may be pretty but you’re one of a kind
Not a knock on other women —
But I want you to be mine,
And I’ll be yours and we’ll dance to “the only exception”
Because I once said I would not love Cus it does not exist
But then I met you.
