Your face in fluorescent looks
different in the daylight
Like, was it a love affair or just a lot of late nights
Like, you had the speaking parts
but I guess I was the playwright
Oh woah oh
I couldn’t escape you,
like the airwaves of the baseline
And I couldn’t erase you,
like a tattoo on my waistline
If it was a first kiss, how come
it felt like a snakebite
Oh woah oh
I wish I would of seen it sooner
Why did it take me
Ages to say it
I wasn’t your cliche
Oh no, this is my coming of age
Oh oh my coming of age,
oh oh my coming of age
I’m quarrying new ground
and i’m burning all your cds
Baby I am the Iliad, of course
you couldn’t read me
So I’ll leave you behind
but that don’t mean it’s easy
Oh woah oh
I wish I would of seen it sooner
Why did it take me
Ages to say it
I wasn’t your cliche
Oh no, this is my coming of age
I send my silence away
Printing my blood on the page
You stole my love and I paid
But you couldn’t keep
what you couldn’t tame
I know I made you the big star
I let you butcher my big heart
But it’s my song and my stage
And it’s my coming of age
Why did it take me
Ages to say it
I wasn’t your cliche
Oh no, this is my coming of age
I wish I could of seen it, god
I wish I could of seen it, god
I wish I could of seen it, god
God I wish that I could of seen it