Nineteen and Aimless - Joshua Lee Turner

Astride the divide

Between childhood and lies

Mischaracterised

Romantic in retrospect

Twenty surrogate sons

A hundred ten in the summertime

All I knew about life

Was a handful of water

Forgetting the line between action and consequence

Parsing my place between fate and happenstance

After a love in which I was so shameless

Nineteen and aimles, nineteen and aimless

Trip down the stairs

It’s not sneaking when no one cares

Counting on Claire

And basking in misery

Forgetting the line between action and consequence

Parsing my place between fate and happenstance

After a love in which I was so shameless

Nineteen and aimless, nineteen and aimless

Come with me

Bathe in memory

I didn’t know who to be

But I knew I wasn’t blameless

Forgetting the line between action and consequence

Parsing my place between fate and happenstance

After a love in which I was so shameless

Nineteen and aimless, nineteen and aimless

Before wine became a close acquaintance

Before my college bands tried to get famous

But after a love in which I was so shameless

Nineteen and aimless, nineteen and aimless