New York Minute

I remember it well

Feeling awkward as hell in a teenage conversation

We were rockin’ The Strokes

Then I was meetin’ your folks

Trying to pass that initiation

We never called it a date

But baby I couldn’t wait

To see if we had the some affections

That summer down by the lake

We were raising the stakes

To see if we’d make the same confessions

And I’m slower than most on the uptake

Forever in debt to the one day...

When the lights came on and I got it

It only took me a New York minute to spot it

I knew it the second I saw it

You were everything that I didn’t know I wanted

I was ready to blow all of my student loans

For the drive those winter weekends

You would listen to all of my shitty songs

About a guy with conflicted feelings

I remember the day that I drove away when

You said that we needed distance

I spent the next three years trying to not appear

Like a half of me was missing

And I’m slower than most on the uptake

Forever in debt to the one day...

When the lights came on and I got it

It only took me a New York minute to spot it

I knew it the second I saw it

You were everything that I didn’t know I wanted

Sometimes the best things in life only come around

When the rest of it’s not quit working out

And I’d do it again for a shot at the end game

Girl that’s why I was holding out

One day the lights came on and I got it

It only took me a New York minute to spot it

I knew it the second I saw it

You were everything that I didn’t know I wanted