I bought the perfume that I tried 
from back when I was in your life. 
I don't know how to say it, 
but it smells like remembering. 

I still wonder if you know 
that you broke my skin and bones. 
Thought I could make it on my own, 
but this feels like surrendering. 

They say the bridge from childhood 
to adulthood is a love that goes wrong. 
And I think it's always a love 
you don't see coming. 
I'd brace for it if I could, 
try and feel it move along. 
But it's always the love 
you never see coming. 

Envisioned futures in your town, 
but you went and let me down, 
and now I feel like I can't 
lift myself up from the ground. 

Knew the houses and the streets; 
kept all my coffee store receipts 
because I thought I found something 
that would keep me hanging 'round. 

But the bridge from childhood 
to adulthood is a love that goes wrong. 
And it's always a love 
you don't see coming. 
I'd brace for it if I could, 
I'd go back, I swear, I would. 
'Cause it's always the love 
you shouldn't see coming. 

And when I reached the age to drink,  
it seemed to make me double think 
how every time that I would sink, 
you'd always push me to the brink.

You could have saved me, I really think... 

And they say the bridge from childhood 
to adulthood is a love that goes wrong. 
Do they say if that love still hurts 
all life long? 

'The Bridge' - 25/10/22.