Clearwater Park

The alarm's going off at 4am and I guess it's a new year again
I would have stayed up until midnight five years ago 
With my friends, sleeping in
Used to sit out in the dead end road under the streetlight with you
Life was so long, out for the summer with nothing to do

Ever since I was a little kid I get this feeling I'm drawing the shade
Before the day's really over just so that I don't have to watch it fade
Sun's going down in the lonely sky and it burns like a used cigarette
I lost your lighter, I'll buy you a new one, and I won't forget

But I don't remember the street that you live on
I just remember the turns in the road
Feels like a ghost town tonight 
With the paper mill lights burning holes in the cloak of the dark
Back when your dog and your sister were seven
You called me over and I always showed
Yet to be found, walking around Clearwater Park

I know you've been trying to reach me
Since you left school and I moved out of state
Used to think by now 
We'd each be raising our babies and clearing our slates
I want to be the same person but I feel myself slipping away
I saved your voicemail just in case I need to hear it someday

I have this dream I'm in high school 
Waiting for you in the parking lot, stoned
Watching a butterfly landing, reincarnated on a traffic cone
Sun's going down and it's beautiful but I don't want to watch it alone
I try to call but I don't have your number saved in my phone

And I don't remember the street that you live on
I just remember the turns in the road
Feels like a ghost town tonight 
With the paper mill lights burning holes in the cloak of the dark
Back when your dog and your sister were seven
You called me over and I always showed
Yet to be found, walking around Clearwater Park

The alarm's going off at 4am and I guess it's a new year again