can someone teach me how to stop time?
i look back on the past and wonder if what i did was right
i look back on yesterday and it went by so fast
i can hear your voice on the phone when i close my eyes

can someone teach me how to stop time?
ben asks if he can sleep in my room again,
i said no but then sneak back thirty minutes later in regret
yes, always yes, you little dear
he writes little songs for a shallow girl who won't ever hear
i always knew he'd turn up just a little bit like me
he's almost double-digits and it feels like a daydream

can someone teach me how to stop time?
we're all working now, pretending we're fine
"nana's little girls" have busy lives
i know it pains her that we're growing up
chocolate milk and donuts don't feel like enough
though we still drink from the old longhorn cups

can someone teach me how to stop time?
she posts pictures on her blog and it strikes a chord in my mind
that all our forevers were hopelessly finite
eternities lost in a camera lens
and we'll want to turn back the clock to "back then"
when did our souls grow old?
when did the sky get dark?
when did the tune of this tragic song
sync up with the beat of my heart?
when did relationships get hard?
when did we not know how to describe
the stuff that is going on in our lives,
so please, someone teach me how to stop time
before it runs out and i realize i was blind

i miss you like the way i miss yesterday
i miss you every time i tell myself it will be okay
i miss you like the grandfather clock in my mind
i don't want us to run out of time
i'm scared i'll look back and realize i was blind
let's not mess this up, i'm trying not to cry
can you teach me how to stop the time?