The Same Mind

Lyrics: I spent years feeling out of place Too loud, too strange, too hard to trace Too much for people, always wrong Too different to ever belong They loved me in short little bursts Just enough to quiet the hurt But never enough for them to stay Never enough to see me that way Then you came in talking too fast Same dark humor, same checkered past Same kind of chaos running your mind Like you were built from the same design You get me You just do Like your whole damn mind Knows my mind too And you’re funny in a dangerous way Got me cryin' from laughin' all day We say the most unhinged things out loud Then somehow turn midnight talks profound You’re the first friend who never exhausts me Never make me need recovery I don’t count down time when you’re around I don’t feel like I’m crashing down We can sit in silence, not say a word Still feel like everything’s heard Send memes for hours into the night Talk about life ‘til it feels alright We talk trauma, music, scars Like we’re mapping who we are Somehow none of it feels too much Like it doesn’t burn to the touch You get me You just do Like your whole damn mind Knows my mind too Same kind of childhood, same kind of pain Same slammed doors, same poured-out rain Same kind of parents teaching love as control Leaving dents inside the soul So when I say “I’m tired,” you know what I mean All the words I never say in between And when you say “I’m fine,” I hear it everytime Like I’ve heard that exact same fake line We turned survival into inside jokes Turned all our damage into smoke Turned everything that tried to ruin our name Into something we can laugh at the same And I swear meeting you felt like proof That people like me really do move Through the same dark, through the same mess And still end up somehow just fine, I guess Now everything’s lighter when you’re around Every boring moment turns profound Every drive feels like a movie scene Every bad day feels less mean You never make me feel like I’m “too much” Never ask me to soften my touch You hype up every weird thing I do Like it’s the coolest thing you ever knew You get me You just do Like your whole damn mind Knows my mind too Same kind of childhood, same kind of pain Same slammed doors, same poured-out rain Same kind of parents teaching love as control Leaving dents inside the soul And maybe that’s what best friends are Not fixing what’s been scarred But looking at all your broken parts And saying, “mine match yours like broken art.”