Nana Grizol - Photos From When We Were Young lyrics

I was looking at photos from
When we were young
Your hair is light blue and
You're smiling in one
And it's a strange remembrance brought
On by this semblance
Oh we were so serious, shy, inexperienced

Oh so unsure of ourselves
Making mistakes without anyone's help
And I thought of the ways I remember you well

Some sweet recollection of redwoods
And raspberry vines
Boys you wrote postcards to numerous times
The uncertainty then
Like some sentence of sin
Punctuated by moments of tenderness
When there were long conversations
Sharing of beds
Walks home from swimming pools
Giddy, impressionable
The distance grew up like the night
Decisions were silence or preemptive flight
Yeah the queer kids I knew
We did tend to be shy
And your parents just couldn't
Get over their shit they spoke of how all
Their ambitions were split
But they still let you in
And tried to pretend
Now you let them refer to
Your lovers as friends
And I wish they could see how it hurts
Or affirm your existence
With interested words
Yeah their self-obsession's a
Patriarch's curse

So you made a family from people you found
Your grew into yourself with
Those weirdos around
Late nights talking at home
Or dancing 'til dawn or driving all day
'cause you're sick of the phone
Yeah, the good ones they tend to leave town
It helps to write letters and
Say "come on down"
Yeah I'm so much better when you're around

And I think of you when I
Put on your old clothes
We don't talk all that often, who ever does?
But, I'll visit you soon and sing you a tune
About finding a family somewhere in the ruins
Of the expectations we once knew
We'll try to make peace
With our patriarchs too