you've already lost.............

She told you bad things you wished you could change
she smiled in a big way, the way a girl like that smiles
when the world is hers and she held your eyes
and she pulled you in, and she bit your lip, and she made you hers
she looked deep into you as you lay together quiet

life goes easy on me

I can't take my eyes off of you

she made you better than you'd been before
she told you bad things you wished you could change in the lazy summer
and she told you, laughing down to her core, so she would not cry as she lay in your lap

and you held her looser than you would have if you ever could have known
some things tie your life together, slender threads and things to treasure
days like that should last and last and last

I can't take my mind off of you

but you've already lost
when you only had barely enough of her to hang on