Dial Tone Dreams

The screen lights up blue in the dark again

Your name hits like a song from way back when

I'm on the line, pretending I'm fine

But I hear that old November in your voice tonight

Blue neon hearts in a blurry frame

Swear we've never changed, but we both changed

'Nough said and says what we couldn't say

And it pulls me back to the Y2K

Days like my phone calls under my blanket glove

Talking too fast like we're sad and seen again, you know

Old crushes never really fade away

They live in the songs and the words we didn't say

Late night phone calls spinning in the rewind

You remind me who I was the first time

In the 2000s with my heart unlocked

I still feel you when the clock stops

I had frosted glass and a borrowed drink

A cheap little camera and a perfect scene

We laugh at the world then disappear

Into static and secrets and some reindeer

Now I've got new walls and a grown-up name

But the same old ache still burns the same

Every little memory hits like a spark

When your hello comes drifting to the dark

Dark neon heights and a blurry frame

Swore we'd never change, but we both changed

Nonsense is what we couldn't say

And it pulls me back

To the Y2K days

Late, my phone calls under my blanket glow

Talking too fast like we're 17, but then you know

Old crushes never really fade away

They live in the songs and the words we didn't say

Late, my phone calls spinning in the rewind

You remind me who I was the first time

In the 2000s with my heart unlocked

I still feel you when the clock stops

If I could fold time into a little more

I'd send you the brave hearts we both outgrew

Not to go back, just to understand how we

Became the girls and boys meet plan

So here's to the years that shaped our skin

To the messy, glittering places we live in

Late night phone calls under my blanket glow

Talking too fast like we're 17 again, you'll know

Old crushes never really take the weight

They live in the songs and the words you didn't say

When my phone calls, I can't hear my name

Like the echo of a softer, younger flame

In the 2000s, I was learning to be bold

And your voice still makes that version of me unfold