Between sips you say: There's nothing heroic about Growing up like you did, surviving somehow I held you at seventeen Baby, you haven't changed a bit Still wearing a face of steel, still feeling all of it When I think of your dad, yeah, it chokes me up And I wasn't the one going through all of that stuff Are you there right now? That sixty-degree summer you spent out west Flipped your car, broke your heart, resurrected a friend Are you there right now? You called it February whiplash When the power goes out, it don't come back So your eyes adjust to living in the dark Your eyes give up on seeing who you are Headstrong, anxious, and healing slow You're paying your debts, clawing back control You'd like to love somebody to a fault You'd like to feel like you deserve it all When I think of us young, it makes me sick I wake up wishing that we were together when we were kids Are you there right now? The fatal flaws of the people that you have needed to breathe Destroying your American dreams, rejecting me Are you there right now? Oh-oh, we don't gotta talk about before Oh-oh, we don't gotta talk about before Oh-oh, we don't gotta talk about before Oh-oh, we don't gotta talk about before Though we'll have to stop our running while we're stunted and afraid Taking stock of what we've lost, there's so much life that remains Are you there right now? The fatal flaws of the people that we don't gotta be Destroying your American dreams, rejecting me Are you there right now?