Recommended Viewing: I Always Thought You Were Cool

This is for all the people I still love that populate the shadowy recess of my adolescent memories.

 

"This is a song with the same four chords
I use most of the time
when I've got something on my mind
and I don't want to squander the moment
trying to come up with a more complicated riff
to say what I want to say.

People were mean to you
but I always thought you were cool
clicking down the concrete hallways
in your spiked heels
back in high school.

It's good to be young but let's not kid ourselves,
it's better to pass on through those years and come out the other side with our hearts still beating
having stared down demons
come back breathing.

People were mean to you
but I always thought you were cool
clicking down the concrete hallways
in your spiked heels
back in high school.

You deserved better than you got
someone's got to say it sometime because it's true.

People should have told you you were awesome
instead of taking advantage of you
I hope you love you life like I love mine
I hope the painful memories only flex their power over you a little of the time.

We held on to hope of better days coming
and when we did, we were right.
I hope the people who did you wrong
have trouble sleeping at night.

People were mean to you
but I always thought you were cool
clicking down the concrete hallways
in your spiked heels
back in high school."

By the brilliant John Darnielle, who always knows what I want to say and seems to do it better than I ever could.