I wanna tell you how I feel but I don't really know I wanna eat my dinner without feeling like I've grown I wish that we were seventeen and on the next train home I do not want to hurt you but I'm scared it's in my bones Making jokes to hide the fact that cards could always fall Tying knots and taking shots and skipping shitty stones Learning what the words mean seven years after the song I do not want to hurt you but I'm scared it's in my bones To grow and to shake To know you is to know something safe To cry and to say I'm sorry that I'm brittle and broken today Daylight's wasting, dogs are chasing, Robin's on the lawn Mom got mad, yelled at my dad, 'cause he did something wrong I was raised in California, poking dragons just for fun I do not want to hurt you whispered softly through the phone Catching up and packing up and borrowing your socks Learned to tell you every single movie that I watched Learned to be two people strung together, arm in arm I do not want to hurt you, whispered softly on a call To grow and to change To know you is to know I'm not brave To lie and to chase The reason why you're hurting, and I'm hurting just the same Ooh, ooh, ooh Ooh, ooh To snap and to sprain To bandage it up till it's stuck in one place To cry and to say I do not want to hurt you But the truth is, I will hurt you The truth is I will hurt you I will hurt you either way