I wrote the song I needed to hear. This is the first completed track from my new album and I hope it is for you what it's been for me - healing.
Right now, this is the only place you can "We Were Never Kids" - digital release coming in Fall 2023.
Lyrics
We Were Never Kids
written by Raye Williams
You were born my best friend
The day I met you that was it
I had you by the hand
You & me against them
I read stories by your crib with love
And later from the top bunk
In the small bedroom we shared
We built a bigger world back there
As easy as the freckles on our cheeks
I protected you and you trusted me
Chorus:
I don't know how innocence
Turned into something poisonous
Tell me, what happened friend
A seed of hurt so deeply sowed
Took the garden and still it grows
But we don't wanna lose - the flowers that we drew
With sidewalk chalk until Mom called us in
I don’t know the how or why or when
We started actin as if we were never kids
You were over me by middle school
And everyone reminding you
That I’d always be first
And every year it hurt you worse
It’s hard to believe there was a time
I was your equal and you were mine
How long have we danced
With such imbalance
No one could make me see beyond my dreams
And now perspective’s like a bathtub through the ceiling
Chorus:
I don't know how innocence
Turned into something poisonous
Tell me, what happened friend
A seed of hurt so deeply sowed
Took the garden and still it grows
But we don't wanna lose - the flowers that we drew
With sidewalk chalk until Mom called us in
I don’t know the how or why or when
We started actin as if we were never kids
Where we fell in line
Was out of our control
It's not your fault and it's not mine
And we don't have to be our roles
Let go of the how and why and when
And remind ourselves again and again
We were kids
We were kids