Jaclyn!

Something New

V1) her tears/ fall/ like perfect drops of glass/ and they shatter as they hit the floor/ her cheeks/ are/ stained with black mascara/ because she doesn’t feel pretty anymore/ he said he couldn’t handle it/ that she was just too much/ and that he bit off more than he could chew/ he wanted an adventure/ he needed a break/ and he was gonna find something new/

Chorus) this world is way too big and beautiful to waste your time daydreaming/ letting yourself grow old, all cooped-up in this town/ ideally, wanderlust just seems so perfect/ but, she (he) thought that he’d (she’d) always be around/

V2) his tears/ are/ welling up inside him/ because he hurt her perfectly by mistake/ his cheeks/ are red/ cause he’s angry and embarrassed/ as he tries to hide behind the smile he fakes/ she didn’t try to fight him/ though he prayed to God she would/ because this was something that he had to do/ if she would have protested/ he would have insisted/ that they go together and find something new/

V3) ten years later, they ran into each other/ both had married, started families, settled down/ they swore that it was a misunderstanding/ and they both regretted not leaving that town/ together/

Lyric and Melody written by Jaclyn Reinhart, January 10, 2012