Lyrics: A Lifetime
Album: Closer
Artist: Better Than Ezra
 

Allie woke up 8am
Graduation day.
Got into a car,
And crashed along the way.

When we arrived late to the wake,
Stole the urn while they
Looked away,
And drove to the beach
’cause i knew you’d want it
That way.

And you were standing
On the hood of the car
Singing out loud
When the sun came up.

And i know i wasn’t right,
But it felt so good.
And your mother didn’t mind,
Like i thought she would.
And that rem song was playing
In my mind.
And three and a half minutes
Felt like a lifetime

It felt like a lifetime

And you move like water
I could drown in you.
And i fell so deep once,
Till you pulled me through

You would tell me
"no one is allowed to be so proud
They never reach out
When they’re giving up."

And i know i wasn’t right,
But it felt so good.
And your mother didn’t mind,
Like i thought she would.
And that rem song was playing
In my mind.
And three and a half minutes
Felt like a lifetime

Are you sitting in the lights?
Or combing your hair again,
And talking in rhymes?
Are you sitting in the lights?

When i got home, heard the phone,
Your parents had arrived.
And your dad set his jaw
Your mom just smiled and sighed.

But they left soon
And i went to my room.
Played that disc that you’d given me,
And i shut my eyes
Swear i could hear the sea.

When we were standing
On the hood of your car
Singing out loud when the sun came up.

And i know i wasn’t right,
But it felt so good.
And your mother didn’t mind,
Like i thought she would.
And that rem song was playing
In my mind.
And three and a half minutes,
Three and a half minutes,

Felt like a lifetime.